To help online shopper

There are various reasons for shopping on ebay-like near-Asian sites from a keen, exhilarating desire to get a watch “like in Portal 2” to banal laziness standing in the way between the sofa and the shopping center. Among them is the desire to save money, and the acute, chronic online shopping addiction of my type. And, of course, the incomparable euphoria after the victory of the final boss - the aunt from the window of the Russian Post - is incomparable. She first tries to exhaust you with a 20-minute queue under “Gentle May” in a cozy post office, and then she can easily ask you to write the code of the department that issued your passport to the back of the notice, but don’t ask yourself the document you just had to go back halfway before the mail because of their own forgetfulness.
So what am I talking about? Oh yes, about another online trading platform and its subtle, invisible connection with OCR.

There is a well-known site in narrow circles, but the English.gmarket.co.kr , which is practically not mentioned on Habré , where you can buy everything quite cheaply, from clothing and accessories to technology and small things. However, this site has one unpleasant feature that makes the brain unprepared person: even the English version contains a huge amount of Korean language, which is drawn on many megabytes of gif-pictures. Well, if not on many tens of megabytes. Well, if not animated gif-pictures. If the imagination fails, go to any of the clickable pictures of the post - you will see the typical pages of the site. Most sellers understand that it is necessary to describe the characteristics of the product in as much detail as possible, and I must say, it does it quite successfully. So for example:


However, some are minimalist, they often forget to mark the size, model or other important information in the picture. Draw Korean characters on Korean pictures, confuse a potential enemy. Obviously, you just need to translate the desired text and everything will become clear. BUT HOW? Have you ever tried to type Korean characters on the keyboard? This is where OCR comes to the rescue. I do not like marketing words, but ... The ideal assistant would be Screenshot Reader, bundled with FineReader 10 or 11 ( here you can see it from 22 to 33 seconds), designed to recognize just the text from the screen. I launched it, circled the word with a rectangle - after a couple of seconds, scary characters were already in the clipboard. Ctrl + v in the dictionary and enjoy a simple, understandable and dear to the dictionary answer like "Kind: Long arm".

Well, okay, popiarilas and enough. Now it is the online shopping post! I propose to collect in one place a list of trading platforms, dear Habraluda. Add to the list and tell us why the proposed site is good and what categories of products it is worth looking at.
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I will start with the obvious ones for me, I will replenish as comments are received.

UPD: instead of copy-paste just made a sign with links to comments. I try to squeeze the most important thing into it (i.e., far from everything gets into it). If where is not right with the description of the store or something else - please write about it in a personal.

Address	What is?	Features	Who recommended
ebay	Everything		Mkrivosheev
aliexpress	Everything	Asian equivalent ebay	dsd_corp : 1
tinydeal	Everything	Accept Webmoney and Yandex.Money	one
pandawill	Everything		tyderh : 1
buyincoins	Everything	Quickly send	trueneutral : 1
dinodirect	Everything		dsd_corp : 1
chinavasion	Everything		dsd_corp : 1
lightinthebox	Everything		dsd_corp : 1
Thinkgeek	Geeky things	Do not send to this country	betrachtung : 1
brando	Gadgets		dsd_corp : 1
DealExtreme (DX)	Gadgets	Can send for a long time. Product reviews there	MKrivosheev : 1 avolkov : 2
miniinthebox	Gadgets	Mini version of lightinthebox	dsd_corp : 1
sunsky-online	Gadgets		dsd_corp : 1
hotmid.com	Gadgets		tyderh : 1
computeruniverse	Brand electronics	Can sell without VAT	dsd_corp : 1
Clove	Brand electronics		betrachtung : 1
Handtec	Brand electronics		betrachtung : 1
eu.nkon.nl	High-quality batteries		bschepan : 1
dealexcel	"Shop for electronics"		DIHALT : 1
taydaelectronics	Radio components		bschepan : 1
Gmarket	Clothes and not only	Ebay purchased	Mkrivosheev
startfitness.co.uk	Brand sportswear	Can sell without VAT	soloveynet : 1
kidoh.de	Products for children (not China)		dsd_corp : 1
chainreactioncycles	Well done and everything for them		Mkrivosheev

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Ivan Korneev chronomaster (and me),
Department of products for text recognition.