mokuro

Read Japanese manga with selectable text inside a browser.

See demo: https://kha-white.github.io/manga-demo

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^{Demo contains excerpt from Manga109-s dataset. うちの猫’ず日記 © がぁさん}

mokuro is aimed towards Japanese learners, who want to read manga in Japanese with a pop-up dictionary like Yomichan. It works like this:

1. Perform text detection and OCR for each page.
2. After processing a whole volume, generate a HTML file, which you can open in a browser.
3. All processing is done offline (before reading). You can transfer the resulting HTML file together with manga images to another device (e.g. your mobile phone) and read there.

mokuro uses comic-text-detector for text detection and manga-ocr for OCR.

Try running on your manga in Colab:

See also:

• Mokuro2Pdf, cli Ruby script to generate pdf files with selectable text from Mokuro's html overlay
• Xelieu's guide, a comprehensive guide on setting up a reading and mining workflow with manga-ocr/mokuro (and many other useful tips)