This is an untitled software project that attempts to automate cleaning, translation and typesetting of comic book and manga speech bubbles. This project uses neural networks, image processing, and dynamic programming in attempt to solve this problem.

Quick recap: I've been building an AI tool that cleans, translates, and typesets manga speech bubbles. It started as an effort to read one of my favorite manga, One Punch Man, as soon as a chapter was released. I made significant progress after creating more than 4000 pages of training data fr...

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My Imgur post - My Reddit thread


I trained a neural net to detect speech bubbles in One Punch Man (and little bit of Garou from part 1), in an effort reduce the amount of work that scanlator has to do when a new chapter comes out.

Here's part 1

I'm happy to report that the new neural net is...

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My Imgur post - My Reddit post


Like a lot of people when a new chapter of OPM comes out I’m just hovering over the RAW reddit thread waiting for someone to translate the dialog. I didn’t really care if it was poorly typeset or just plain text translation, I just wanted to know what’s goi...

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