A handy tool for OCRing manga
Project description
OCRMyManga
OCR My Manga is a tool to help you OCR your manga. Utilizing the Google Cloud Vision API, it can automatically detect text in your manga and output it to a text file.
OCRMyManga is written in Python. It is still in development, so there may be bugs.
SINCE THIS TOOL USES THE GCLOUD LIBRARY, YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE A GOOGLE CLOUD ACCOUNT TO USE IT. THIS MAY INCUR MONETARY COSTS FOR LARGE OCR TASKS > 1000 pages
Installation
This tool REQUIRES a Google Cloud Vision API Key. Follow these instructions to get one: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/setup
Then, install OCRMyManga from pip with the following command:
pip install ocrmymanga
Usage
OCRMyManga is a command line tool. It can be run with the following command: It will ONLY output into pdf format.
ocrmymanga [-h] [INPUT] [-o OUTPUT] [-b] [-c CREDS] [-v]
-h: help -b: batch process -c: credential file for google vision -v: verbose
Permitted file types
OCRMyManga can only OCR the following file types: .png .jpg .jpeg .cbz
Support for other file types may be added in the future.
Cookbook
OCR a single file
ocrmymanga input.jpg -o output.pdf
Batch OCR a directory
ocrmymanga input_dir -o output_dir -b
OCR with a custom credential file
ocrmymanga input.jpg -o output.pdf -c creds.json
(-c will default to credentials.json)
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