diff --git a/ext/bg/js/api.js b/ext/bg/js/api.js
index 2ab01af3..967bded7 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/api.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/api.js
@@ -109,25 +109,30 @@ async function apiTextParseMecab(text, optionsContext) {
     const options = await apiOptionsGet(optionsContext);
     const mecab = utilBackend().mecab;
 
-    const results = [];
-    for (const parsedLine of await mecab.parseText(text)) {
-        for (const {expression, reading, source} of parsedLine) {
-            const term = [];
-            if (expression && reading) {
-                for (const {text, furigana} of jpDistributeFuriganaInflected(
-                    expression,
-                    jpKatakanaToHiragana(reading),
-                    source
-                )) {
-                    // can't use 'furigana' in templates
-                    term.push({text, reading: furigana});
+    const results = {};
+    const rawResults = await mecab.parseText(text);
+    for (const mecabName in rawResults) {
+        const result = [];
+        for (const parsedLine of rawResults[mecabName]) {
+            for (const {expression, reading, source} of parsedLine) {
+                const term = [];
+                if (expression && reading) {
+                    for (const {text, furigana} of jpDistributeFuriganaInflected(
+                        expression,
+                        jpKatakanaToHiragana(reading),
+                        source
+                    )) {
+                        // can't use 'furigana' in templates
+                        term.push({text, reading: furigana});
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    term.push({text: source});
                 }
-            } else {
-                term.push({text: source});
+                result.push(term);
             }
-            results.push(term);
+            result.push([{text: '\n'}]);
         }
-        results.push([{text: '\n'}]);
+        results[mecabName] = result;
     }
     return results;
 }
diff --git a/ext/bg/js/mecab.js b/ext/bg/js/mecab.js
index 14f68393..fba9b2eb 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/mecab.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/mecab.js
@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ class Mecab {
     }
 }
 
-Mecab.timeout = 1000;
+Mecab.timeout = 5000;
diff --git a/ext/bg/js/options.js b/ext/bg/js/options.js
index be1ccfbb..f1bafaf9 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/options.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/options.js
@@ -311,6 +311,11 @@ function profileOptionsCreateDefaults() {
 
         dictionaries: {},
 
+        parsing: {
+            enableScanningParser: true,
+            enableMecabParser: false
+        },
+
         anki: {
             enable: false,
             server: 'http://127.0.0.1:8765',
diff --git a/ext/bg/js/search-query-parser.js b/ext/bg/js/search-query-parser.js
index 1cf00425..81eb18c3 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/search-query-parser.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/search-query-parser.js
@@ -86,22 +86,32 @@ class QueryParser {
         this.search.setSpinnerVisible(true);
         await this.setPreview(text);
 
-        // const results = await apiTextParse(text, this.search.getOptionsContext());
-        const results = await apiTextParseMecab(text, this.search.getOptionsContext());
+        const results = {};
+        if (this.search.options.parsing.enableScanningParser) {
+            results['scan'] = await apiTextParse(text, this.search.getOptionsContext());
+        }
+        if (this.search.options.parsing.enableMecabParser) {
+            let mecabResults = await apiTextParseMecab(text, this.search.getOptionsContext());
+            for (const mecabDictName in mecabResults) {
+                results[`mecab-${mecabDictName}`] = mecabResults[mecabDictName];
+            }
+        }
 
-        const content = await apiTemplateRender('query-parser.html', {
-            terms: results.map((term) => {
-                return term.filter(part => part.text.trim()).map((part) => {
-                    return {
-                        text: Array.from(part.text),
-                        reading: part.reading,
-                        raw: !part.reading || !part.reading.trim(),
-                    };
-                });
-            })
-        });
+        const contents = await Promise.all(Object.values(results).map(async result => {
+            return await apiTemplateRender('query-parser.html', {
+                terms: result.map((term) => {
+                    return term.filter(part => part.text.trim()).map((part) => {
+                        return {
+                            text: Array.from(part.text),
+                            reading: part.reading,
+                            raw: !part.reading || !part.reading.trim(),
+                        };
+                    });
+                })
+            });
+        }));
 
-        this.queryParser.innerHTML = content;
+        this.queryParser.innerHTML = contents.join('<hr>');
 
         this.queryParser.querySelectorAll('.query-parser-char').forEach((charElement) => {
             this.activateScanning(charElement);
diff --git a/ext/bg/js/settings.js b/ext/bg/js/settings.js
index e562c54e..f4fe032a 100644
--- a/ext/bg/js/settings.js
+++ b/ext/bg/js/settings.js
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ async function formRead(options) {
     options.scanning.modifier = $('#scan-modifier-key').val();
     options.scanning.popupNestingMaxDepth = parseInt($('#popup-nesting-max-depth').val(), 10);
 
+    options.parsing.enableScanningParser = $('#parsing-scan-enable').prop('checked');
+    options.parsing.enableMecabParser = $('#parsing-mecab-enable').prop('checked');
+
     const optionsAnkiEnableOld = options.anki.enable;
     options.anki.enable = $('#anki-enable').prop('checked');
     options.anki.tags = utilBackgroundIsolate($('#card-tags').val().split(/[,; ]+/));
@@ -126,6 +129,9 @@ async function formWrite(options) {
     $('#scan-modifier-key').val(options.scanning.modifier);
     $('#popup-nesting-max-depth').val(options.scanning.popupNestingMaxDepth);
 
+    $('#parsing-scan-enable').prop('checked', options.parsing.enableScanningParser);
+    $('#parsing-mecab-enable').prop('checked', options.parsing.enableMecabParser);
+
     $('#anki-enable').prop('checked', options.anki.enable);
     $('#card-tags').val(options.anki.tags.join(' '));
     $('#sentence-detection-extent').val(options.anki.sentenceExt);
diff --git a/ext/bg/settings.html b/ext/bg/settings.html
index bdcc11d3..8505567b 100644
--- a/ext/bg/settings.html
+++ b/ext/bg/settings.html
@@ -587,6 +587,35 @@
                 </div></div>
             </div>
 
+            <div id="text-parsing">
+                <h3>Text Parsing Options</h3>
+
+                <p class="help-block">
+                    Yomichan can attempt to parse entire sentences or longer text blocks on the search page,
+                    adding furigana above words and a small space between words.
+                </p>
+
+                <p class="help-block">
+                    Two types of parsers are supported. The first one, enabled by default, works using the built-in
+                    scanning functionality by automatically advancing in the sentence after a matching word.
+                </p>
+
+                <p class="help-block">
+                    The second type is an external program called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeCab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MeCab</a>
+                    that uses its own dictionaries and a special parsing algorithm. To get it working, you must first
+                    install it and <a href="https://github.com/siikamiika/yomichan-mecab-installer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a native messaging component</a>
+                    that acts as a bridge between the program and Yomichan.
+                </p>
+
+                <div class="checkbox">
+                    <label><input type="checkbox" id="parsing-scan-enable"> Enable text parsing using installed dictionaries</label>
+                </div>
+
+                <div class="checkbox">
+                    <label><input type="checkbox" id="parsing-mecab-enable"> Enable text parsing using MeCab</label>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+
             <div>
                 <div>
                     <img src="/mixed/img/spinner.gif" class="pull-right" id="anki-spinner" alt>