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[Android] Pleco Chinese Trans - Free handwriting recogn + 30% back on purchases inc OCR AmazonUS

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Point your phone at a chinese sign or menu etc and see what it means in english. This amazing dictionary is always free but atm are offering free handwriting recognition & 300 coins credit back on $9.95 (995 coins) OCR purchase. Great for those of us with coins to burn from the other day.

"Product Description
The most popular mobile Chinese dictionary ever is now on Amazon.

LIMITED-TIME PROMO: Get a free copy of our Chinese handwriting input add-on if you download now.

Pleco is the ultimate Chinese learning companion - an integrated Chinese English dictionary / document reader / flashcard system with fullscreen handwriting input and live camera-based character lookups, from a company with over a decade of experience making mobile Chinese learning software.

Major features:

• Great dictionaries: the free app comes with two dictionaries that between them cover 130,000 Chinese words and include 20,000 example sentences with Pinyin, and 11 other wonderful dictionaries are available as paid upgrades. (another batch of dictionaries are due out this spring)

• Live Optical Character Recognizer: look up Chinese words simply by pointing your device's camera at them, or by scrolling around a still image. (paid add-on)

• Handwriting input: use the entire width of your device's screen to draw characters. Very accurate, with a recognition engine licensed from China's leading maker of handwriting input systems. (paid add-on, free till June 30th)

• Flashcard System: create a card from any dictionary entry with a single button tap, import premade word lists, use advanced memorization techniques like SRS (spaced repetition), and study in a variety of modes including fill-in-the-blanks and tone drills. (simple version free, full-featured a paid add-on)

• Powerful search: look up words by Chinese characters, Pinyin (spaces and tones optional), or a combination, with support for wildcards and full-text search.

• Cross-referencing: tap on any Chinese character / word in any dictionary entry to bring up its definition.

• Audio Pronunciation: instantly hear a native-speaker Mandarin audio recording of each Chinese headword; recordings are available for over 34,000 words. (single-syllable free, multi a paid add-on)

• Voice Recognition: not too exciting since it's built into Android, but we support it and it works well. (free)

• Stroke Order Diagrams: animations showing you how to draw each Chinese character; over 20,000 characters are covered. (paid add-on)

• Document Reader: open a Chinese-language text file and translate unknown words simply by tapping on them. You can also look up characters on web pages and in Word / RTF documents via the pasteboard. (paid add-on)

• Mainland- and Taiwan-friendly: supports traditional and simplified characters (in dictionary definitions, stroke order diagrams, searches, OCR, and handwriting), and supports Zhuyin as well as Pinyin for pronunciation display. Experimental Cantonese support too.

• Tablet-friendly: Android 4 optimized, includes a two-panel (results + definition together) interface that's perfect for tablets, and we've also tweaked our layouts around tablet-sized screens.

• No ads: we won't even nag you about buying add-ons.

We also offer excellent customer support - send us an email and see for yourself - and an active user community at plecoforums.com.

Though we're new to Android, we've been selling mobile Chinese dictionary apps since 2001, and our sales and customer base have been steadily growing for 11 years across four different platforms. We take good care of our longtime users, too - people who bought the Oxford dictionary from us in 2001 can still use that purchase on their brand new Android phone in 2013 without even having to pay an upgrade fee. You can be confident that we'll still be fixing bugs and adding new features for many years to come.

Paid add-ons can be transferred to another device like any other paid app; load the free version of Pleco on your new device, go into "Add-ons" and tap "Restore Market Purchases."

Customers who already own our software on another platform should check out our website at pleco.com/android for upgrade / license transfer options. "

There may also be other coin offers on other modules - this is the 'must have' so had to share it.
Download the app from within amazon appstore then choose the menu (top right) and add ons, then OCR. You will have to download and try it before it will let you buy it. When you do it will offer to either pay by card or coins, either way you get 300 coins 'cashback'. If you dont have enough coins you can by them from the appstore at about 5% (or more depending how many you buy) off cash price. You cannot part pay with coins.

edits as i check them:
The Pleco Basic Bundle including OCR and Extended English - Chinese dictionaries is $39.95 with 1,961 coins back. (nearly 50% back)
Professional Bundle with 3 dictionaries and all add-ons lot $79.95 with 2,399 coins back
other add-ons & dictionaries ~30% coins back
All $4.95 add-ons 149 coins back
$9.95 add-ons 299 coins back
$19.95 add-ons 599 coins back
etc

The app itself is also available from google, also with free handwriting recognition but the OCR and other addons are still full price https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chin…

It should be possible to have your addons credited on to google, itunes etc and processes are mentioned for crediting purchases between platforms

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closed Comments

  • +1

    Thanks, slewis69au?

    • Just posted a comment on their comment in the wordview thread saying just that - if they hadnt said about the (always) free translation i wouldn't have seen the free add on to write in characters by hand on your screen (that may have been what they were referring to) and I wouldn't have found the discount on OCR which is what really blew me away. I initially was just going to use the coins from the other day to pay for the OCR, found the 'coins back' on it by accident, it isnt advertised

      I had planned to come back and write a thank you here too btw - just went there to thank the people who pointed out this amazing app first

      • I suppose 30% off is pretty good. If OCR is the goal, it'll be similar in price to the previously-mentioned Waygo app though, at $7.45.

        • Obviously the handwriting input for when the OCR cant make out a weird font or something is pretty desirable too, as is being able to copy text from webpages/pdfs/ebooks etc and have them translated.
          I would also LOVE to be able to pronounce chinese words better and this does that too.

          I havent checked out waygo tho tbh

  • Thanks OP for a super thorough description of this deal!

    • Awesome - thanks for noticing!

  • I use Pleco, and it's great for character recognition and explanations of the individual characters of a word. I got the character recognition for free from the Google Playstore during a promotion. For looking up words from Pinyin or English I tend to get better results with Hanpeng, however.

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