Shun
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Hello Mike,
since in Pleco 4.0, flashcards will support a much richer set of metadata and customizable fields, and since smartphones and tablets almost always come with built-in cameras, are you planning to allow users to take photographs to add to new flashcards, perhaps even with OCR post-processing to make any Chinese text inside them searchable? This could be something on a PC/Mac screen (e.g. a movie with Chinese subtitles), a book or even Chinese text I see on the street. The user could also use OCR to add text from the photo to a "context field", verify the OCR'ed text and then discard the photo at the end.
In Pleco 3.2, adding flashcards is always immediate, and it works by tapping the "+" button without any option to alter the flashcard except for the category it is added to. For Pleco 4.0, are you perhaps already planning to use an "Add Flashcard" screen that comes up each time the user taps the "+" button, where the user can enter extra information and edit settings for a flashcard? In this screen, it would be nice to have a photo field that, when tapped, allows the user to take a photo to associate with the flashcard.
Possible downsides:
- Requires a lot of extra storage space
- Sharing and syncing of flashcards may take a lot longer because of the space requirements. (So a setting to disable photos would be needed there.)
I think I’ve read that images in flashcards are already planned, so my suggestion perhaps is only an extension. Other ideas are welcomed.
Thanks & Regards,
Shun
since in Pleco 4.0, flashcards will support a much richer set of metadata and customizable fields, and since smartphones and tablets almost always come with built-in cameras, are you planning to allow users to take photographs to add to new flashcards, perhaps even with OCR post-processing to make any Chinese text inside them searchable? This could be something on a PC/Mac screen (e.g. a movie with Chinese subtitles), a book or even Chinese text I see on the street. The user could also use OCR to add text from the photo to a "context field", verify the OCR'ed text and then discard the photo at the end.
In Pleco 3.2, adding flashcards is always immediate, and it works by tapping the "+" button without any option to alter the flashcard except for the category it is added to. For Pleco 4.0, are you perhaps already planning to use an "Add Flashcard" screen that comes up each time the user taps the "+" button, where the user can enter extra information and edit settings for a flashcard? In this screen, it would be nice to have a photo field that, when tapped, allows the user to take a photo to associate with the flashcard.
Possible downsides:
- Requires a lot of extra storage space
- Sharing and syncing of flashcards may take a lot longer because of the space requirements. (So a setting to disable photos would be needed there.)
I think I’ve read that images in flashcards are already planned, so my suggestion perhaps is only an extension. Other ideas are welcomed.
Thanks & Regards,
Shun
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