manga-ocr VS EasyOCR

I use manga-ocr on pc

I usually read manga, and use yomichan and manga_ocr. Initially I'll try to read the sentence by itself to see if I understand it. If I don't, I'll take a screenshot of the sentence so manga_ocr parses the text, and then I'll paste it somewhere in my browser and use yomichan to check unknown vocabulary. I've already done Genki I and II so I almost never have to look up grammar. When I do find grammar I don't understand, a quick Google search, or just referring back to Tae Kim or Genki, will do. I never translate the full sentence, I just check the meaning of unknown words and try to understand the sentence in Japanese.

If on browser, use Yomichan. Otherwise, set up a screenshot tool like ShareX with https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr

manga-ocr, which you will probably want to use for convenience anyway, convert the text to horizontal and it will automatically show up this way in the Yomichan clipboard monitor.

MangaOCR on github is really good. There are two main gui of it that i know of. The first is a whole gui reader of it and is called poricom. The second lets you ocr anything on the screen when pressing alt+q and is called cloe. Here are the links : https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom https://github.com/blueaxis/Cloe

I'm going to go against what everybody is saying and say to not rely on furigana. There was another comment saying to set up mokuro to use yomichan with. Imo, that would be the more ideal setup. You not only have access to a lot more manga (that don't use furigana), but being overly reliant on furigana may prevent you from building up your intuition for figuring out which kanji reading to use in which moment. Part of building comprehension/intuition is trying to figure out which kanji reading/word meaning you should use in each differing context. Furthermore, if you can't set up mokuro, look into setting up an OCR and a texthooker. https://github.com/kha-white/manga-ocr The one above would be the one that I would recommend the most.

they are probably referring to this Great thing, reads an image from the clipboard and puts back the text from the image.

If you have more of these, manga-ocr can read it without any issues.

PyTesseract Module [ Github ] EasyOCR Module [ Github ] PaddlePaddle OCR [ Github ]

I just uploaded my C++ implementation of EasyOCR, a well known ocr library for python. Also dusted some cobwebbs from some audio related projects as well, feel free to leave feedback or contribute! I only implemented the most salient parts, so certainly could use some community help! Cheers!

EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch (https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR (https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR) and docTR (https://github.com/mindee/doctr).

The main one was https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR, mostly because, as promised, it was pretty easy to use, and uses pytorch (which I preferred in case I wanted to tweak it). It has been updated since, but at the time it was using CRNN, which is a solid model, especially for the time - it wasn't (academic) SOTA but not far behind that. I'm sure I could've coaxed better performance than I got out of it with some retraining and hyperparameter tuning.

Anyways, you can give a shot to EasyOCR, pretty solid and flexible

The easyocr library: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Not used it on a Pi but maybe a Docker version (if there is one) would run? Compose file here