Links to other sites of interest

This page is not very well organized, but some of these links point to excellent sites that are very well organized, up-to-date, and extensive. (Then again, some of them might not lead anywhere.)

Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

Many Wenlin users have asked us how they can scan Chinese characters from a printed page and then read them as electronic text. This requires Chinese OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software. We have not NOT tested any of these programs, so let the buyer beware! If you know anything about these or other Chinese OCR products, we would be interested. The first one, IRIS (with a necessary "Asian OCR add-on"), was reported by one Wenlin user to work "quite well" on Windows XP; there is also IRIS for MacOS.

Iris OCR --- SumniPage --- Dan Qing(1) --- Dan Qing(2) --- PenPower --- ChineseMac OCR info

Chinese Software for Handheld Computers

Oxford Concise English and Chinese Dictionary: Software for PalmOS by Pleco Software Incorporated.

Chinese Language

Chinese Online: Organized by Prof. Tianwei Xie at Cal State Long Beach.
clearchinese.com: Learn Chinese: Online resources for learning Chinese, also by Tianwei Xie
Learning Mandarin Chinese: Free online lessons
Chinese Language Page (Jim Becker): Links to numerous sites
1 Month Mandarin: Intensive Chinese Learning and Study in China
Chinese-Tools.com: Free online tools for the Chinese language
www.chineseetymology.org: Images of ancient forms of Chinese characters.
Beginning Level Chinese Reading: The University of Iowa Chinese program.
Mountain Songs: Beautiful Chinese poetry, with translations, photos of actual sites and GPS maps.
Your name in Chinese: With free downloadable Chinese symbols.
Wenguzhixin 溫故知新: Chinese classics: The Book of Odes and more.
Chinese Herb Names: From the Chinese Herb Academy.
POPjisyo.com: A remarkable web-based instant-lookup system.
Chinese-French list of HSK characters: University of Geneva Chinese Studies Dept.
Resources for East Asian Language and Thought: By Charles Muller (Includes on-line dictionaries of Buddhist terms, etc.)
A Chinese Text Sampler: Collection of Chinese literature for students, organized by the author of Clavis Sinica.
Clavis Sinica: Another software program for learning Chinese.
Chinese Mac FAQ: All about reading and writing Chinese on Macintosh computers.
Marjorie Chan's ChinLinks: Annotated links to China- and Chinese language and linguistics-related web sites.
Xiaoyu Collection: Collection of a wide variety of Chinese literature.
Shuhai Wenyuan: Interactive Internet Worktable for reading ancient Chinese philosophy.
Yahoo Chinese News: World news in Chinese, full-form characters (Big-5).
Declan Software's Chinese Language Learning Software: Flashcards, etc., for MS-Windows.
Voice of America Chinese: World news in Chinese, simple-form characters (GB).
www.ocrat.com: On-line materials for learning Chinese.
Rick Harbaugh's Chinese Character Genealogy: Web-Based Etymological Dictionary for Learning Chinese Characters -- Amazing!
People's Daily: Chinese newspaper on-line; there is also an English version.
China Books and Periodicals, Inc.: Great source for books and software.
www.wenxuecity.com: Wenxue City -- Chinese literature and news.
China News Digest WWW SERVER: Home of HXWZ Chinese Magazine.
An Intelligent Database for Standard Chinese Computer Technology: Hong Kong Computer Society
UC Davis Chinese -- Norm Matloff: Chinese computing, KuaiXue
Internet Distributed Chinese Magazines
SinoLogic Software - HyperChina
Macintosh Chinese Page
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (Taiwan Ministry of Education)
NJSTAR Chinese / Japanese Software
UC Berkeley Chinese Program
San Diego State University Chinese Program
HK Star Internet Ltd
gopher://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/
ComStar Information Home Page
Art of China / Learn Chinese
Erik Peterson's General Chinese Page
Asia-Links.com
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Unicode

Unicode Home Page (www.unicode.org)

Miscellaneous

Some Python helper scripts for Wenlin 3: By Silas S. Brown at Cambridge University.

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