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Re:Introducing Word Lens on Friday December 17, 2010 @05:18AM (#2015803)
There already exists an impressive Chinese real-time OCR dictionary for the iPhone called Pleco: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7VTo0656Rc

The dictionary is free and the OCR is available as an in app purchase for $15.

I'm just saying this because it is not trivial to adapt an OCR engine to non-latin scripts, because the image analysis techniques are rather different.