manga-translator

Automatically translates manga pages from Japanese to English.

How it works

• Find text bubbles using OpenCV contour manipulations
• OCR the text bubbles with Tesseract
• Send the text to Google Translate
• Typeset the translated text back into the text bubbles

Example

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Dependencies

• Python 2.7
• Tesseract
• OpenCV with Python wrapper
• Node.js
• google-translate-api
• pytesseract
• NumPy, SciPy, some other Python packages