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  • manga-ocr

    Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga

  • 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.

  • Poricom

    Optical character recognition in manga images. Manga OCR desktop application

  • 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.

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  • mokuro

    Read Japanese manga inside browser with selectable text.

  • The creator of manga-ocr also recently created a new tool called mokuro, which uses manga-ocr to turn Manga text into scannable Yomichan text when hovering on it - check out the video for a quick demo of it.

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