manga-ocr VS Poricom

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.

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

https://github.com/bluaxees/Poricom manga ocr PC

Poricom

mokuro if you want to preprocess your manga and then have all text be scannable, Poricom if you want a reader program that uses OCR.

Poricom is probably what you could be happy with. Download the program, launch it, and when asked whether to import the "manga-ocr model", say yes. It will download it for the first time, and whenever you start the program, you'll have to click "yes" again so it uses that model.

Reading manga is a little more involved - you can't use Yomichan on them due to the text not being actual text, but an image of text. You can turn them into text by using an OCR program, like manga-ocr. If using the command line is too scary for you, check out Poricom, which runs on manga-ocr, but also has a user interface. You can even combine this with a texthooker to automatically paste text you scan from a manga to an empty page, where you can then Yomichan it.

For text that is only available as a PDF or image format - like Manga - an OCR tool is what you want. I found manga-ocr to be the most accurate one by far. If installing Python stuff is scary for you, consider Poricom instead, which is a desktop application using manga-ocr. You can then go a step further and combine either tool with texthooking so you can use Yomichan on the text you OCR'd instead of needing to manually paste into a dictionary.