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booklover · 07-12-2008, 12:15 AM

I was thinking of pointing at a word in an OCRed pdf and having it looked up in a dictionary. but after reading related posts, I now realize that this is NOT possible so far. Am I right? I've installed the stardict. Is this the only dictionary I can use to help look up words come across in a pdf? (I don't have mobireader in my chinese iliad, so I guess that ruled out the mobipocket dictionary,right?)

I still experience the "delay" problem while inputing words into the stardict dictionary, has it been improved lately? Or are people still working on that project? Thank you.

07-12-2008, 12:15 AM	#3
booklover Enthusiast Posts: 43 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: Iliad 2nd ed.	I was thinking of pointing at a word in an OCRed pdf and having it looked up in a dictionary. but after reading related posts, I now realize that this is NOT possible so far. Am I right? I've installed the stardict. Is this the only dictionary I can use to help look up words come across in a pdf? (I don't have mobireader in my chinese iliad, so I guess that ruled out the mobipocket dictionary,right?) I still experience the "delay" problem while inputing words into the stardict dictionary, has it been improved lately? Or are people still working on that project? Thank you.