Readly

Scanning a page of Chinese text with your phone camera and turning the words in it into flashcards is the core job Readly does.

Readly is an AI language learning app that reads text from images with OCR, then gives you tools to understand it and study the vocabulary.

Those tools sit in one app instead of being spread across several, which is the main appeal if you are learning Chinese and tired of switching between a dictionary, a translator and a flashcard program.

The app includes AI assistance for working out what a passage means, text-to-speech for hearing it, and simple flashcard creation.

Some flashcard features may need an Anki account to work fully, so check that before you rely on it.

You need a device with a camera, and results depend on how clean the scanned text is.

Blurry or awkwardly lit pages will give weaker output than clear print.