Founder Michael Love Products Apps | Area served Worldwide Website www.pleco.com | |
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Founded New York, NY, United States (2000) | ||
Pleco is an English & Chinese Dictionary application for iOS and Android devices. The Pleco Software company was founded in May 2000 by Michael Love.
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Features
Pleco allows different ways of input, including Pinyin input method, English words, handwriting and through OCR, It has many sets of dictionaries, (from Oxford, Longman, FLTRP, Ricci), audio recordings from two different native speakers, and has flashcards functions and document reader which looks up words in a document. Pleco is a free application with in-app purchases (depends on the operating system), additional functions and large dictionaries (to-date, 2014, English, French, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, classical Chinese, and a traditional medicine reference).
History
Application was first launched on the Palm Pilot in 2001. In 2013 Pleco had one of the major upgrades. Pleco Chinese Dictionary 3.0 was released for iOS users.
Devices
Pleco requires an iPhone 3GS or later, an iPad 2 or later, or a Retina-display-equipped iPod Touch. The Android version requires Android 2.3 or later, and is available outside of Google Play for users in China or with non-Google Android devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire.
iPhone version was released in 2008.