Universal Access
Imagine suddenly having the gift of understanding and speaking Chinese. Which websites would you visit? Who would you want to chat with--in Chinese? Start understanding news headlines, emails and documents as easily as reading English. It's all possible with the MDBG Chinese Reader.
Understand Chinese (almost) everywhere
Glide your mouse over Chinese text and MDBG Chinese Reader’s popup windows immediately explains the Chinese text across websites, browsers, applications--even the Windows file system. MDBG is the first truly immersive learning system that helps you understand Chinese--almost everywhere.
Chinese Reader's Universal Access is unique. Instead of installing a browser plug-in, toolbar or other widget, Chinese Reader's technology works within the Windows operating system so it works almost everywhere. If you can select and copy text to the clipboard, then Chinese Reader can help you understand its meaning from our 100,000 entry Chinese-English dictionary; Chinese-German and Chinese-French dictionaries are also available. With this dictionary installed on your computer, it's always available--even when the Internet is slow or unavailable.
Supported Environments
MDBG Chinese Reader works everywhere, whenever you need it most. Browsing news and special interest sites? Checking your email from a train? Reading a report or document on the plane? Chinese Reader is compatible with these very popular environments:
Operating Systems and Apps
- Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro (x86, x64) in desktop mode
- Microsoft Windows 7 (x86, x64)
- Microsoft Windows Vista (x86, x64)
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) New!
- Microsoft IME Pad with Hand Writing (CH) New!
- Microsoft Windows 7/Vista: Windows Explorer, Task Manager, etc.
Chinese Reader is performance-tuned to take advantage of 64-bit operating systems (Windows 8 64-bit) and multicore, multi-threaded processors (Intel Core i3, i5, i7; AMD A-Series and Phenom/Athlon).
Web Browsers
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 (on Windows 7 or Windows 8 desktop)
- Mozilla Firefox 21 New!
- Google Chrome 26 New!
Some web browsers are constantly being updated. See support FAQs for Firefox and Chrome.
Productivity Applications
- Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, XI New!
- Adobe Reader X, XI New!
- Microsoft Office 2010, 2007
- Microsoft Office Web with SkyDrive
- Microsoft Word 2010, 2007
- Microsoft Excel 2010, 2007
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2010, 2007
- Microsoft Access 2010, 2007
- Nitro PDF Reader 2
- OpenOffice 3.3
About Universal Access
MDBG Chinese Reader works with the most popular websites, email, chat and productivity applications, including:
Chat
- Skype
- Pidgin (LiveScan only)
- Google Gmail (web)
- Yahoo! Mail (web)
- Microsoft Hotmail (web)
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Outlook.com (web)
- Microsoft Windows Live Mail (web)
Chinese websites
- Baidu
- Bible Gateway*
- Flickr*
- Google*
- Hudong
- Ifeng
- MDBG
- Nciku
- Sina
- SoSo
- Tudou
- Twitter*
- Wall Street Journal*
- Wikipedia*
- Yahoo*
- Youku
- YouTube*
- zdic.net
*Chinese site. Third-party applications and sites are subject change. Interoperability verified but not guaranteed.
Limitations
Since the release of MDBG Chinese Reader 6, a few applications are no longer "well behaved" and will not function with Chinese Reader's LiveScan and HighlightScan. These are:
- Microsoft Office 2013; Office 2010 is compatible
- Tencent QQ
In May 2013, Version 6.7 was released. LiveScan and
HighlightScan are now supported with:
- Adobe Reader XI
- Adobe Acrobat Pro XI
- Google Chrome version 26
- Mozilla Firefox 21
- Microsoft Word 2013 (beta)
- Expanded dictionary (over 105,000 entries)
UpdateUpdate your Chinese Reader 6 software to v6.7
ClipboardScan
Chinese Reader now monitors your Windows clipboard for Chinese text whenever you use Ctrl+C or Edit > Copy. Enable ClipboardScan from Settings.
