« Roaming Trek Pinyin TL Do you ever look at Chinese text and wish you could see Pinyin above each character? Now you can, with Pinyin TL! With Pinyin TL, you take a picture, select some Chinese text within that picture, and that text is displayed at the top of the screen along with its corresponding Pinyin. You can even tap on a word (at the top) and see its CC-CEDICT dictionary entry. App features: Uses Apple's "Live Text" UI for text selection Recognizes traditional AND simplified Chinese characters Recognizes text when the layout is horizontal OR vertical Recognizes text even if it's stylized or handwritten (to some degree) Displays the correct Pinyin for every character, even characters that have multiple transliterations (usually) Correctly identifies each word in a sentence (usually) Displays translations from CC-CEDICT Works offline Pinyin TL is made by the developer of tChess (the chess app that was featured in Apple's "Learn" commercial for the iPad) and Learn Chess (the Apple Staff Favorite e-book). © 2026 Tom Kerrigan roamingtrek@gmail.com