Creating Flashcards from schoolbooks

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Hi, I’m relatively new to Anki but haven’t found any solution for this yet. I want to create Flashcards from the vocab section of schoolbooks. It looks something like this:

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I want

  1. Being able to control what column/language is shown first. It doesn’t matter if I have to use two add-ons. The problem is that it varies what I need to see first on the flashcard from subject to subject.

So e.g, for Russian,
“ Note, Zensur” – question
“оценка” – answer.

But for Latin, it might be
“nihil/nil” – question (Latin)
“nichts” – answer
(first the language I’m learning, not the other way around.)

  1. Only having one form shown as the “question”, even though it is in the same column in the book.
    E.g “ardere”– question
    “ardeo, arsi – brennen” – answer

Often, there is a third column in the book for example sentences or other tips. It would be good if this third column could be part of the answer but I don’t mind if it isn’t recognised at all; it’s just a nice extra.

  1. The tool recognising different writing systems, as it needs to work for Russian in particular.

I want to clarify that I want to have words, not images on my flashcards.

It would be nice if there is an add-on/function out there which does exactly this. It would save me a ton of time since I wouldn’t need to copy the vocab by hand.

I’ve searched for shared decks of my schoolbooks but haven’t found any yet. So if you know a deck of “диалог 1 – Schülerbuch für den Russichunterricht” by Cornelsen Verlag and, ideally, for “диалог 2” too, I would equally grateful!

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I’ve had a similar experience recently, you can use ocr software to extract the text from the image, or even ai like chatgpt to do this for you, and remember to proofread it all over at the end

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Make sure you understand what notes, note types, cards, and card types are. That will make all of the things I’m describing make more sense. Getting Started - Anki Manual

This is no problem in Anki, and there are several ways to do it. The easiest is to control it with your note type. Make sure that the 1st card it creates from each notes has that language on the front.

This you’ll control by putting your information in different fields of your note. [Fields are explained in that Getting Started link too.] You can add more fields if there are more things you want to show on your cards – you add the field to the note type, and also to your card templates.

Anki doesn’t have built in OCR, so if you only have your book as images, you’ll have to use something to recognize the text.

Once you have the text, you can format it in a text/CSV file pretty easily and import it into Anki. Text Files - Anki Manual