Translation & Lettering¶
Manga & Comics
Open Source¶
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Manga109-v2026 Discovered by AI
2026
An updated version of the foundational Manga109 dataset, providing refined dialogue text annotations and corrections to align with modern OCR and multimodal manga translation/understanding tasks.
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OnomatoBridge: Onomatopoeia Translation and Rendering Pipeline in Manga Discovered by AI
2026
A specialized pipeline for visual onomatopoeia translation in manga that replaces Japanese sound effects with translated equivalents while preserving their unique artistic styles. It operates in three stages: inpainting the original onomatopoeia, extracting its visual structure, and rendering the translated text.
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Indonesian Manhwa Translation Pipeline Discovered by AI
2025
An automated pipeline designed for translating Indonesian manhwa (comics) into English. It integrates a fine-tuned YOLOv5xu model for speech bubble detection, Tesseract for OCR, and a fine-tuned MarianMT model for machine translation.
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MangaLMM / MangaVQA Discovered by AI
2025
A specialized large multimodal model (LMM) and benchmark designed for multimodal manga understanding, featuring MangaOCR for in-page text recognition and MangaVQA for evaluating contextual narrative comprehension.
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OnomatoGen Discovered by AI
2025
A generative framework that stylizes plain text into visually expressive onomatopoeia for manga, utilizing alpha-channel generation to control shape, size, and placement according to the scene's mood.
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PaddleOCR-VL-For-Manga Discovered by AI
2025
An open-source OCR model fine-tuned from PaddleOCR-VL specifically for Japanese manga text recognition. Trained on Manga109-s and 1.5 million synthetic samples, it achieves high accuracy on manga speech bubbles, vertical text, and stylized fonts.
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Re:Verse Discovered by AI
2025
A comprehensive evaluation framework and dataset designed to test Vision Language Models (VLMs) on sequential visual storytelling, temporal causality, and cross-panel cohesion in manga.
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CoMix: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multi-Task Comic Understanding Discovered by AI
2024
A comprehensive multi-task benchmark for comic and manga understanding, evaluating models on object detection, text recognition, panel ordering, and text-to-speaker matching.
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Context-Informed Machine Translation of Manga using Multimodal Large Language Models Discovered by AI
2024
A research paper investigating the use of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to incorporate visual context into manga translation, helping resolve ambiguities that standard text-only translation models struggle with.
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Koharu Discovered by AI
2024
A local-first, AI-powered manga translator written in Rust that automates detection, OCR, translation, and inpainting. It runs vision models and LLMs locally (via GGUF) to ensure data privacy while offering multi-format project management and a selective pipeline.
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Manga Translator Android Discovered by AI
2024
An Android application for instant automatic manga translation powered by large language models. It performs local speech bubble detection and OCR, translates text using OpenAI-compatible APIs, and overlays draggable translation bubbles on top of the original comic pages.
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Manga Translator UI Discovered by AI
2024
A graphical user interface for manga translation built on top of manga-image-translator. It supports automatic translation of Japanese, Korean, and English comics, integrates multiple translation engines like OpenAI and Gemini, and features a visual editor for adjusting text styles.
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Manga Typesetter Discovered by AI
2024
A lightweight desktop application for manga and webtoon scanlation and lettering without requiring Photoshop. It features balloon-aware text placement, gradient and pattern fills, bulk styling by tags, and editable-layer PSD export.
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MangaTranslator Discovered by AI
2024
A modern Gradio-based web application for automating manga translation using YOLO and SAM 2.1/3 for speech bubble detection, FLUX for text inpainting, and LLMs for OCR and translation.
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Tails Tell Tales: Chapter-Wide Manga Transcriptions with Character Names Discovered by AI
2024
A multimodal framework that automatically generates dialogue transcripts for complete manga chapters. It detects text blocks, classifies them into essential or non-essential dialogue, clusters character faces, and matches texts to their speakers to ensure narrative consistency.
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Comic Translate Discovered by AI
2023
An AI-powered comic and manga translator application and browser extension that automatically translates comics, manga, and webtoons across multiple formats and languages while preserving the original layout.
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Koharu Discovered by AI
2023
A local-first, machine learning-powered manga translator written in Rust. It provides an automated workflow for text detection, OCR, translation, and rendering directly on the user's local machine.
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MomoTranslator Discovered by AI
2023
A computer-aided comic translation tool primarily based on OpenCV that detects panels and speech bubbles, sorts them, and integrates with translation APIs like Google and ChatGPT.
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BallonsTranslator Discovered by AI
2022
An open-source, computer-aided manga and comic translation tool powered by deep learning. It automates text detection, OCR, inpainting (text erasing), machine translation, and typesetting, while offering a rich visual editor to customize text styles and layouts.
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Comic Translation Helper Discovered by AI
2022
A deep learning-based comic translation helper tool that integrates OCR text detection, translation, text removal, and automatic typesetting to streamline the scanlation workflow.
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Mokuro Discovered by AI
2022
A tool that performs OCR and layout analysis on Japanese manga pages to generate interactive HTML files, allowing users to read manga in a web browser with selectable and translatable text.
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Manga Image Translator Discovered by AI
2021
An open-source tool for translating text in manga and images, featuring automatic text detection, OCR, machine translation, and inpainting to replace the original text while preserving the background.
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Manga OCR Discovered by AI
2021
An optical character recognition (OCR) tool specifically optimized for Japanese manga, capable of recognizing multi-line vertical and horizontal text in a single forward pass.
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MisakaTranslator Discovered by AI
2020
A popular open-source real-time machine translation tool for visual novels, Galgames, and manga, integrating OCR, text hooking, multiple translation engines, and text-to-speech.
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SickZil-Machine Discovered by AI
2020
A deep learning-based helper tool for manga and comic scanlation that automates the process of text detection and removal (inpainting) from speech bubbles and panels.
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Towards Fully Automated Manga Translation Discovered by AI
2020
A foundational paper proposing an end-to-end fully automated manga translation system that integrates text detection, text recognition, machine translation, and text rendering.
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Proprietary / Industry Tools¶
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KOMA Studio Discovered by AI
2024
An AI-powered desktop scanlation software designed for manga, manhwa, and comics. It combines context-aware AI translation, smart typesetting, automatic cleaning, and style-aware inpainting redraw into a single unified pipeline.
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IsManga Discovered by AI
2023
A popular AI-powered manga translator available as a browser extension and mobile app that translates raw Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, and Chinese manhua in real-time while preserving the original layout.
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Torii Image Translator Discovered by AI
2023
A popular commercial browser extension and web tool powered by AI for real-time, on-image translation of manga, manhwa, and webtoons.
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Orange Inc. Discovered by AI
2021
A Japanese manga localization startup that utilizes AI-assisted technologies (including Anthropic's Claude) to automate manga translation, lettering, and typesetting. The platform accelerates the translation process up to ten times faster than traditional methods while maintaining human-in-the-loop quality control.
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ImageTrans Discovered by AI
2020
A professional computer-aided image and comic translation software that integrates state-of-the-art OCR, machine translation, and automatic typesetting. It helps translators and publishers localize manga, manhua, and webtoons efficiently by automating text extraction and background restoration.
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Mantra Engine Discovered by AI
2020
A professional cloud-based manga localization platform powered by proprietary language and image-processing AI, automating text detection, translation, and typesetting for publishers.
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