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There was so many OCR models released in the past few months, all VLM models and yet none of them handle Korean well. Every time I try with a random screenshot (not a A4 document) they just fail at a "simple" task. And funnily enough Qwen3 8B VL is the best model that usually get it right (although I couldn't get the bbox quite well). Even more funny, whatever is running on an iphone locally on cpu is insanely good, same with google's OCR api. I don't know why we don't get more of the traditional OCR stuff. Paddlepaddle v5 is the closest I could find. At this point, I feel like I might be doing something wrong with those VLMs.

Hey thanks for the awesome comment! Yeah you do need a sub (a free trial to be manually activated, big mistake on my end there, I should have made that flow better, lesson learned with this post.)

I get the frustration with the landing page and I think you are right. I was not exactly perfectly happy with this above the fold section either. I just made what I could do the best for now. 100% this will be changed in the future once I can get a full fledged trailer.

As for the remaining points, they're are all good points, all noted. Thanks again for the feedback.

I absolutely want that I well! I took the fastai course and made some attempt at building my own custom OCR. I got some result but not good enough for production (after all I'm totally new to the domain lol). I still believe it is possible, but time wise, I had to go work on other tasks first. Ideally I want something that works client side, should run on mobile (think wasm onnx or something like that) and is specialized for webtoon. I don't know if I'm dreaming too big or not but I want to give a second try in the future.

If you're talking about menu being grayed, it's because you did not start the trial. I wanted to make the trial to start immediately after creating an account, but stripe force the trial to be attached to a price. So I'm forced to let the user make the price choice (without paying) even for a trial which I absolutely hate and would be love to have a better flow. I want and will find a solution to that.

If you're talking about content to try directly after making an account, you're right. There's none for now. Something definitively can be improved there. Noted.

Noted! Thanks for the suggestion, that's a good idea.

Hey thanks for the comment! I have read your entire feedback and love it.

Yes there are free tools that does the same job (I have noted that on the description of the post). The main difference is that Kimchi is capable of recognizing words correctly (ofc not 100%, but better than other tools. If you think there are better tools out there, I would love to see it!).

As for Anki, I don't want to rebuild a whole SRS on my side if that what you were thinking. I think Anki is an awesome software and does its job extremely well. So using it instead of recreating the wheel sound much more interesting.

For the content, I don't have anything right now indeed. I would love to build a customized content recommendation later matching with the knowledge you marked in Kimchi. But I don't plan producing material myself and I don't think I have level to do so anyway.

And finally for ML. I think I should use it where it make the most sense. I definitively want to use it! But I also don't want to use for the sake of using it. I wanted the foundation to be without, then ML can always be slapped on top of it. As you said, there's plenty of scenario where I could use it, be pronunciation, ocr for webtoon, translation with context for when you understand each word and grammar but still don't get the sentence, whisper, tts for making audiobook on the fly, etc.

Ah! Mistake on my end indeed, sorry. I do have settings in the application where people can redefine the colors such as the background or text color. But I haven't done for the colors (red, green, yellow, orange, etc) itself. I am adding that to my task list now.

Hey thanks for the awesome comment! I just made a new account using google oauth with a spare email I had, and seems like it is working perfectly fine. Five other people have managed to create an account using google as well since the post. I would love to know what went wrong but I'm unsure how to help there. Maybe try again ? In any case sorry for the inconvenience.