Simple-Comic
macOS comic viewer (by MaddTheSane)
MockSimpleComic
A testbed for using Apple's Vision framework with SimpleComic (by DavidPhillipOster)
| Simple-Comic | MockSimpleComic | |
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| 9 | 2 | |
| 244 | 1 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.4 | 7.1 | |
| 20 days ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Objective-C | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Simple-Comic
Posts with mentions or reviews of Simple-Comic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-29.
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With 2022 over soon, what were your favorites apps of the year?
🫴 Simple Comic free and open source - a reader for Graphic Novels, but it will also open image pdfs or a directory of images. It uses Apple's Vision Framework so you can use the mouse to select text in .pngs, .jpgs, and it has a Find command to make it all searchable. Once you've got the text, you can use the built-in Text-To-Speech to have it read to you, do a Google search, or paste it into translate.google.com to get it translated into a more comfortable language.
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I've made app for reading and saving manga on iOS
/u/F0x3S/ Take a look at this macOS Manga reader: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic and https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic/issues/87 for handling OCRed text, with searching, and .cbz/.cbr metadata in a Manga reader.
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Any current Objective-C/UIKit open source projects?
It is macOS, not iOS, but take a look at Simple Comic, source code on github.
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No longer responsive window when reading ePUB comics
Source code at: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic
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iOS 16 introduced the Live Text API, so I made an app to quickly markup text within your images.
I used the Vision framework to add full-text searching, and selection©ing to the text in Graphic Novels. Graphic Novels are just collection of image files, usually a zip of jpegs. It is a free reader app in the Apple App Store: Simple Comic It's for Mac, but it's open-source. The source code is here.
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How can I display a pdf/doc/docx or whatever in chunks
Take a look at https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic - it's an open source reader for .cbz files. It will compile and run on your Mac. It can open a .pdf and display just one or two pages at a time.
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Is it possible to hide app menus in the menu bar?
hideOCRMenusIfUnavailable in OCRTracker.m in the open-source App Simple Comic which, if you go into Preferences and turn off Recognize Text hides all the menu items that depending on recognizing text to function. Go into Preferences* and turn Recognize Text back on, and it puts those menu items back. That way, I don't have to explain to the user why those menus items are dim.
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WWDC live text feature for app?
You give it a CGImageRef, and a block, and the block gets called back with an array of structs, each of which contains a rectangle, a confidence level, and a string, that corresponds to one line of text. https://github.com/DavidPhillipOster/MockSimpleComic takes that and wraps it in a layer, so you can mouse over the text like you can in Preview when you open a .png. https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic/ has been taking my pull requests and putting it up on the App Store. All available today, and with the Vision framework, which works back to the 2019 vintage macOS, and iOS.
MockSimpleComic
Posts with mentions or reviews of MockSimpleComic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-08.
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WWDC live text feature for app?
You give it a CGImageRef, and a block, and the block gets called back with an array of structs, each of which contains a rectangle, a confidence level, and a string, that corresponds to one line of text. https://github.com/DavidPhillipOster/MockSimpleComic takes that and wraps it in a layer, so you can mouse over the text like you can in Preview when you open a .png. https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic/ has been taking my pull requests and putting it up on the App Store. All available today, and with the Vision framework, which works back to the 2019 vintage macOS, and iOS.
- How to add Live Text to your own apps. Sample code.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Simple-Comic and MockSimpleComic you can also consider the following projects:
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CocoaLumberjack - A fast & simple, yet powerful & flexible logging framework for macOS, iOS, tvOS and watchOS
Hanami - Manga reading app for iOS/iPadOS written with SwiftUI and Composable Architecture
SDWebImage - Asynchronous image downloader with cache support as a UIImageView category
cbzDump - A Macintosh command-line tool that dumps the entire text content of a .cbz to standard output
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui - Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.
Ferdium - Ferdium is a desktop app that helps you organize how you use your favourite apps by combining them into one application.