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Anonymous
August 5, 2013
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Is there a dictionary for Digital Editions

  • August 5, 2013
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I just downloaded a book and I'm trying Adobe to read it.

Is there an English dictionary for Digital Editions with which I can look for a word meaning with a click or something similar?

Arturo

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    sjpt
    Inspiring
    August 6, 2013

    Not built-in.

    There are utilities to help: for example see http://www.thefreedictionary.com/download.htm and http://files.db3nf.com/DA-Setup.exe

    that will make that facility available on almost any application.

    I haven't tried them.

    They probably won't work for DRM books, because they probably rely on copy and paste.

    You'd need one that did OCR on the screen and then linked to a dictionary: not that hard to do but I don't know of one.

    If you are a bit technical you could set up http://sourceforge.net/projects/capture2text/files/Capture2Text/ to do it.

    KeithWinnipeg
    KeithWinnipeg
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    March 27, 2015

    An instant look-up dictionary would be a huge improvement for Digital Editions, especially since Digital Editions does not allow cut-and-paste which makes the conventional way of looking up words awkward.

    An alternative solution would be for Digital Editions to allow the copying of single words of text.  But providing instant dictionary look-up would be better.

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