fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/full_description.txt (1644 bytes)
1 Scan SubRead is a PDF reader that follows the audiobook. It works with scans and with text PDFs. It is made for people who read and listen in a language that they learn. 2 3 Load a PDF and the subtitle file (.srt) of its audiobook. The app reads the text of each page, aligns each subtitle line to it, and follows the player: it marks the line that the narrator reads and turns the page. 4 5 <b>What it does</b> 6 <ul> 7 <li>Scans: OCR reads each page in the app, also Japanese, horizontal and vertical. Text PDFs: the app reads the text layer.</li> 8 <li>Tap a word: the text from that word to the end of the line goes to the dictionary of your choice. The player pauses while the dictionary is open.</li> 9 <li>Press a word for half a second: SubRead Anki makes a card with its sentence.</li> 10 <li>"Make subtitles with SubRead": pick the audiobook, and SubRead makes the .srt from the audio and the text of the book.</li> 11 <li>The app keeps the last book, its page and its subtitles, and opens them at the next start.</li> 12 <li>After a page turn by hand, the page stops following. The Follow button brings it back.</li> 13 </ul> 14 15 <b>The SubRead suite</b> 16 <ul> 17 <li>SubRead Overlay reads the position of the audiobook player and gives it to this app.</li> 18 <li>SubRead Dictionary, or another app in the text selection menu, looks up the words.</li> 19 <li>SubRead makes the subtitle file.</li> 20 <li>SubRead Anki makes the cards.</li> 21 </ul> 22 The start card shows which of these apps are installed. 23 24 <b>Network</b> 25 The first OCR run of a language downloads the language data of Tesseract from cdn.jsdelivr.net. The app keeps it after that. Nothing else leaves the device.