Sharing my script to handle comic books

[WaveEquation]

Hi Everyone, over the last two evenings, I wrote a simple script to convert my Tintin books to a manageable form, so that it's easy to read on my Clara BW. Thought of sharing it here.

I'm NOT a comic book reader and have no clue about manga and such. But I just love Tintin and I really wanted to re-read them on my Kobo (new to ereaders as well.)

Motivations for this script:
1. Even with KOReader, reading the comic book was tedious. I wanted a navigation experience similar to regular books. That is, switching between individual panels (or a couple of hem) with page turns.

2. I checked KCC and it didn't quite do what I expected (unless I'm missing something.)

3. A fun programming exercise.

I'm sure there might be better tools out there but just thought of sharing it with the community.

What does this script do?
Split individual panes from the pages and combines them together in format suitable for small screens (like 2 or 3 panes wide with some fuzzy logic to handle really wide panes.)

Detailed explanation is here: https://github.com/dvnlgls/comic-san

An example:
Turn something like this:


to something like these:




More examples here: https://github.com/dvnlgls/comic-san...master/samples

It's not a 100% automation tool, but when configured properly it can vastly reduce the manual efforts (in my case. 99%!).

Unfortunately, it does call for some coding knowledge.

You can check out the code here: https://github.com/dvnlgls/comic-san/

[WaveEquation]

Forgot to mention. The most difficult task of getting the panes from pages is done by https://github.com/njean42/kumiko/ So, all credit to the author.

[Pjama]

This looks great, thanks so much for sharing this. I have quite a lot of Asterix books I look forward to trying this on.