If I may add, for Text Reco, feel free to consult this page of our developer guide:

https://developer.vuforia.com/resources/dev-guide/word-targets

which explains what is currently possible and what is not;

in particular, the Section titled "Supported characters" explains which characters are supported;

as you can see, characters that belong to non-European alphabets, like Japanese, Korean, Chinese, are simply not supported.

thank you for your reply, i actually want to make a dictionary-like application so i will need as many korean words as possible. i will try using image- recognition then.

You can try that, though it's not a case that we have evaluated and it's likely that some words will be unrecognizeable due to the simplicity of their design. How many Korean words do you need to be able to recognize?

Dear AlessandroB, based on your reply I concluded that currently its also impossible to recognize korean words. my application, however needed to recognize korea character, so is it possible to try using image recognition to recognize such character ? 

thank you

AlessandroB,

Thank you for your reply.

Correct.

Japanese characters are not supported at present.

You may also want to post a request for such feature (for future versions of the product) in our Forum Wish List here:

https://developer.vuforia.com/forum/general-discussion/wish-list

Hi AlessandroB,

Thanks for your reply,

In the link you sent, supported characters include: [LF], [SPACE], ', -, A to Z, and a to z.

While as I understand, Japanese characters, i.e. あ, ア, 花, are different from the supported characters. Does it mean that right now, the sample does not recognize and display Japanese characters?

Hi, thank you for your feedback.

If you are using Japanese characters, those are not supported at present (see "Supported characters" table in: https://developer.vuforia.com/resources/dev-guide/word-targets); so you can extend the wordlist by adding words in the Inspector (as you did), but you need to use those characters that are supported.

I will also bring your request to the product team.