NômCam: Hán Nôm OCR Scanner

NômCam reads Chữ Nôm and Hán from a photograph. Point it at your family's genealogy book, a gravestone in the cemetery, a royal edict in a communal house or a page of an old book, and it gives you the characters and how to read them in Vietnamese. WHAT IT READS Genealogies, gravestones, royal edicts, parallel couplets, temple boards, woodblock books, manuscripts and stele rubbings. Printed, carved and handwritten characters all work; flowing cursive is harder. READS A WHOLE PAGE Every column on the page is found automatically and read in order, right to left or left to right, and you can tap the columns yourself to set any order you like. Or switch to Manual and draw the boxes yourself, around one row or one column at a time. READS THE WHOLE COLUMN AT ONCE Characters that touch each other are not cut apart and guessed one by one. The whole column is read in a single pass, which is what…