Read the Japanese in your games,
right where it appears.
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. is a reading aid for learning Japanese. It reads the text on your screen (games, visual novels, anything Windows can show) and shows the reading and meaning of each word, right where you're looking. It runs locally in about 200ms, with no alt-tab to a dictionary.
Browser dictionaries can't read your games.
Tools like Yomitan work by reading a web page's text directly. Games and visual novels draw Japanese as pixels, not selectable text, so those tools can't reach it, and you're left alt-tabbing to a dictionary to hand-draw a kanji you can't read.
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. reads the text straight off the screen, so the lookup happens where you're already looking and you never leave the scene.
Stay in the scene
The overlay is layered and click-through, so it never switches windows or steals focus.
No kanji lookup by hand
You never type or draw a character you cannot read. みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. read it already.
Reaches native apps
Games, visual novels, manga readers, video: anything Windows can put on screen.
How it works, end to end, in about 200ms.
Nothing leaves the device. The whole pipeline runs locally, from capture to definition.
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Capture
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. grabs the pixels of the target window: no integration with the game required.
Win32 capture - 02
Read
A detector finds every line; a recognizer reads the characters.
PP-OCRv5 / ONNX - 03
Segment
The recognized line is split into real dictionary words.
Lindera - 04
Look up
Each word is matched to definitions, ordered by how common it is.
JMdict + JPDB - 05
Paint
A transparent, click-through overlay draws highlights and hover definitions.
Win32 layered overlay
GPU-accelerated: TensorRT -> CUDA -> CPU, with graceful fallback.
Accuracy and speed
Measured on a reference NVIDIA box against a few hundred hand-labeled 4K screenshots.
A fresh, full-screen read of a 4K frame on the native TensorRT path.
About 94 of every 100 text lines are read with zero errors.
Roughly one character in eighty is wrong or missing. Errors cluster in tiny, faint, or heavily stylized text; ordinary dialogue and menus read reliably.
All OCR and dictionary lookup run locally; nothing is sent off your machine.
Non-intrusive by design
The overlay is layered and click-through. It never steals focus or interrupts game input. It sits unnoticed until you want a reading.
Grammar-aware color
Each word is colored by its part of speech, so grammar is legible at a glance.
When it's unsure
When a read misses, it usually surfaces as an unknown word rather than a confident wrong definition.
Open source
Licensed AGPL-3.0. The capture path, the models, and the lookup are all open to read and audit.
Color you can read grammar by.
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. tints each word by its part of speech, using a colorblind-safe set, so particles, verbs, and nouns separate at a glance.
- Noun
- 母 朝
- Verb
- 飲みます
- Adjective
- 寒い 熱い
- Adverb
- とても ゆっくり
- Particle
- は に
- Other / unknown
- 。
Where みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. fits, and where it does not.
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. shows the reading, dictionary form, and meaning of each word, so you keep reading the Japanese yourself. It is built for one job and points you elsewhere for the rest.
Reach for みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read.
- Native games and visual novels
- Manga and comic readers
- Subtitles and video, paused or live
- Any Windows app a browser cannot touch
Reach for your browser
For ordinary web pages, browser-native tools like Yomitan and 10ten are the better fit: they read the page's own text directly. みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read.'s niche is everything outside the browser.
みて見るVerb (ichidan)to see; to look; to watchte-form みて is the te-form of 見る, and how "Mite" is read. is Windows-first and optimized for NVIDIA hardware. It falls back gracefully to CPU, but the reference experience is a recent NVIDIA GPU.
Install it and read.
Requirements: Windows 10 or 11. An NVIDIA GPU is recommended for the fastest path; a CPU fallback works without one.
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Run the installer
The app walks you through getting set up.
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Pick a window
Choose your game, visual novel, or app from a live preview grid.
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Read
Hover any word for its reading, dictionary form, and meaning.