OCR integration about js-dict

[petlyh]

Thanks for your feature request. I'm glad you like the app.
While I don't see this feature as strictly necessary since there are separate apps that can recognize text in an image and let you copy it, I think it would be very convenient and a good addition to have it in this app if implementing it won't require too much work (which it probably won't if I use something like ML Kit like you suggested). Just to clarify, what you want is to be able to take a picture (or open an image file), then select part of the recognized text and immediately search for it? Do you have any suggestions on what you think it should look like?

[sdaqo]

Yeah, so essentially you would have a camera button in the search bar or some floating icon in the bottom corner, where you can start the OCR.
I do not know how annoying it would be to implement this but maybe (could also be future thing, don't want to burden you 😅) you could afterwards have the results as a component that slides in from the bottom (probably seen that before on other apps), with this you could search several characters on the same image and you could probably reuse the existing results screen/component. Don't bother if it's too annoying and just implement it as you suggested i.e. select text on picture and start a normal search.

[petlyh]

have the results as a component that slides in from the bottom (probably seen that before on other apps), with this you could search several characters on the same image

Could you elaborate on this a bit? I haven't seen it in other apps before, so I don't know exactly what that looks like. Also, by "component that slides in from the bottom", are you referring to a bottom sheet?

[sdaqo]

Yeah exactly