manga-ocr VS Kaku

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.

As for Android, I use kaku. GitHub link. From my experience it's very good and use Da kanji as a alternative.

sounds like a lot of steps just for one word. if you didn't know there is a fork of tachiyomi that has ocr built in, there's also Ocr Manga reader, kaku and it's also worth looking at mokuro

I've found this app for android (not sure if there is a newer version on their GitHub) that uses OCR (optical character recognition) to detect kanji within games and other apps and show their meanings.

Kaku: Japanese OCR Dictionary

You can install Yomichan in the Kiwi browser on mobile. I do that and it works quite well. If you need something similar outside of a browser, you can use the context menu search (highlight and long-press a word) from Takoboto or Akebi (on Android--not sure about iOS). For text that's not highlightable, I use Kaku OCR.

0.26 - 🖼 Dedicated manga viewer and image mining workflow alongside Tachiyomi and Kaku with custom dictionary and Anki integration

Not a translator, but the best dictionary would be Kaku: https://kaku.fuwafuwa.ca/

I also worked on a similar project to this before, also with the goal of reading manga (though, it works for pretty much anything on-screen in Android). You can check it out here: 0xbad1d3a5/Kaku: 画 - Japanese OCR Dictionary (github.com)