Comics/manga reader with inapp OCR/dictionary ?

Pode · 05-04-2013, 05:14 AM

I don't really in which subforum I can ask that question, and it's still a general idea, so I suppose it's best to ask it here.

There's now a lot of manga, comics, euro-"bande dessinée" available as a scan or directly through legal online store, in an electronic form, in all languages.

I spent some time to search for it, but I didn't find any comics/manga reader (either on desktop win/lin/mac, or on Mobile iOS/Android/Win/etc.) that provide the possibility to read a page, "select" a word in it, have a quick OCR done on the text, and provide you a definition/translation.
My idea is, for example, to read comics in spanish (as it's not my mother tongue), and quickly highlight/OCR the word I don't know, to help me learn them faster.

I'm a developer, my specialty is Computer Vision (with OpenCV and other frameworks). Printed texts in comic books follow some constraints that make them manageable by an OCR algorithm.

Since I never saw a soft doing that, I though that I need to code one myself, but before that, I really wanted to be sure that no one exist.

Does somebody heard of an app that does that ?

charmian · 05-04-2013, 05:18 AM

http://www.kanjitomo.net/

This isn't precisely a comics reader and isn't for the language you're interested in, but this might interest you.

Pode · 05-04-2013, 05:27 AM

@charmian : thanks for the quick answer !
I already heard about kanjitomo (I also lurk on koohii.com's forum

).

I want to perfom something very close to that. In fact, the algorithm itself isn't very hard. The really good part would be an good integration in an app with a good UI/UX !

05-04-2013, 05:14 AM	#1
Pode Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: France Device: Sony Reader	Comics/manga reader with inapp OCR/dictionary ? I don't really in which subforum I can ask that question, and it's still a general idea, so I suppose it's best to ask it here. There's now a lot of manga, comics, euro-"bande dessinée" available as a scan or directly through legal online store, in an electronic form, in all languages. I spent some time to search for it, but I didn't find any comics/manga reader (either on desktop win/lin/mac, or on Mobile iOS/Android/Win/etc.) that provide the possibility to read a page, "select" a word in it, have a quick OCR done on the text, and provide you a definition/translation. My idea is, for example, to read comics in spanish (as it's not my mother tongue), and quickly highlight/OCR the word I don't know, to help me learn them faster. I'm a developer, my specialty is Computer Vision (with OpenCV and other frameworks). Printed texts in comic books follow some constraints that make them manageable by an OCR algorithm. Since I never saw a soft doing that, I though that I need to code one myself, but before that, I really wanted to be sure that no one exist. Does somebody heard of an app that does that ?

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05-04-2013, 05:18 AM	#2
charmian Addict Posts: 386 Karma: 1814548 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Kindle 3, Kindle PW2	http://www.kanjitomo.net/ This isn't precisely a comics reader and isn't for the language you're interested in, but this might interest you.

05-04-2013, 05:27 AM	#3
Pode Member Posts: 22 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: France Device: Sony Reader	@charmian : thanks for the quick answer ! I already heard about kanjitomo (I also lurk on koohii.com's forum ). I want to perfom something very close to that. In fact, the algorithm itself isn't very hard. The really good part would be an good integration in an app with a good UI/UX !

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