Manga Translator
Python tool for translating text found within speech bubbles in manga images. It utilizes YOLOv8 for bubble detection, MangaOCR for text extraction, OpenCV, NumPy and Pillow for image processing and translation services like google, bing, baidu and Helsinki-NLP's opus-mt-ja-en model for text translation.
► For more informations check the github repository here.
► The project can be seen on HuggingFace.
How it works
- Detect speech bubbles in manga images.
- Extract text from detected speech bubbles.
- Clear speech bubbles for better visualization.
- Translate extracted text to the desired language.
- Add translated text back into the speech bubbles.
Getting started
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/georgescutelnicu/Manga-Translator.git
Install the required dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
Command Line Interface
Navigate to the directory where you cloned the repository
Run the main.py script with the required arguments
python main.py --model-path /path/to/model --image-path /path/to/image --font-path /path/to/font --translator [google/hf] --save-path /path/to/save