KanjiVG: Kanji Vector Graphics

Licence

KanjiVG is copyright Ulrich Apel and released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licence:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

See the file COPYING for more details.

Documentation

The project's documentation is at https://kanjivg.tagaini.net/.

Changes to the original project:

• Added a gen_db.py file to generate kanjivg.db
• Added a search.py file to search for kanjis within your Anki collection. Requires AnkiConnect.
• Renamed kvg-lookup.py to kvg_lookup.py, so it can be imported from other scripts
• Cleaned up some of the existing python scripts so they can be easier read for me personally (\t -> 4 spaces, etc.)

Since this was something like a 5 minute project, most things are hard coded, including the frequency dictionaries used, and word field in Anki.

Usage

1. Download frequency dictionaries into kanji_freq.

   Expected file structore:

   kanji_freq
   ├── aozora
   │   ├── [Kanji Frequency] Aozora Bunko.zip
   │   ├── index.json
   │   └── kanji_meta_bank_1.json
   └── jpdb
       ├── [Kanji Frequency] JPDB Kanji.zip
       ├── index.json
       └── kanji_meta_bank_1.json
   

   Files downloaded from https://github.com/MarvNC/yomichan-dictionaries#kanji-frequency

2. Create the xml file by running:

   python3 kvg.py release
   

3. Run python3 gen_db.py

4. Done (do whatever with the generated database, and you can use search.py now)