Pleco Software
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| Founded | New York, NY, United States (2000) |
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Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Apps |
| Website | www |
Pleco is an English & Chinese Dictionary application for iOS and Android devices. The Pleco Software company was founded in May 2000 by Michael Love.[1]
Features
Pleco allows different ways of input, including Pinyin input method, English words, handwriting and through OCR,[2][3] It has many sets of dictionaries, (from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, Ricci), audio recordings from two different native speakers, and has flashcards functions and document reader which looks up words in a document.[4] Pleco is a free application with in-app purchases (depends on the operating system), additional functions and large dictionaries (to-date, 2014, English, French, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, classical Chinese, and a traditional medicine reference).[5]
History
Application was first launched on the Palm Pilot in 2001. In 2013 Pleco had one of the major upgrades. Pleco Chinese Dictionary 3.0 was released for iOS users.[6][7]
Devices
Pleco requires an iPhone 3GS or later, an iPad 2 or later, or a Retina-display-equipped iPod Touch. The Android version requires Android 2.3 or later, and is available outside of Google Play for users in China or with non-Google Android devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire.[8]
iPhone version was released in 2008.[9]
See also
References
- ^ About Pleco, retrieved 2014-04-01
- ^ Millward, Steven (26 January 2012). "Pleco: Chinese Character Recognition App Finally Comes to Android". Tech in Asia. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Shu, Catherine (25 January 2013). "Translator App Waygo Reads Chinese Menus For Hungry Travelers". Techcrunch. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ "My Back Pages: Digital Diary Traces Memories". Chengdu Living. 25 November 2010. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Chen, David (31 January 2010). "Tech Review: Taiwan: Pleco for iPhone and iPod touch". Taipei Times. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Butler, Robert (12 March 2013). "The Only Chinese Dictionary App Worth Your Time". Language Clan. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ "Pleco Chinese Dictionary for iOS and Android Version 3.0". Language Resource Group. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 1 April 2014.
- ^ Pleco Chinese Dictionary for iOS and Android, retrieved 2014-04-01
- ^ Webster, Graham (14 April 2008). "Pleco may be bringing a full-featured Chinese dictionary to iPhone". cNet. Retrieved 1 April 2014.