kanjin

Idea repo for a site for making a registry of all kanji with OCR capabilities

About

This repository is meant to be a planning document for a site with the following objectives:

• To provide a beautiful catalogue of all Kanji, Kana, and Hanzì.
• To provide a usable dictionary and etymology for characters, in any language where that character is used.
• To provide a resource for tracing the etymology of characters.
• To provide a library for OCR techniques to automatically recognize characters(in as far as it is possible to do so)
• To explain what Unicode characters exist for each character, if any.

These goals are not far fetched. Ukiyo-e.org is a good example of a site that has managed to do this already for another resource, namely, ukiyo-e prints. The technical problems are different there; however, some of the same techniques and design problems and solutions are adoptable.

Contribute

For now, this is a planning document. Any questions or discussions should happen in the issues. Please join in!

Links

Useful currently existing resources:

• OCR: Tesseract