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 from OPM to the train the AI. Today I present a version of the tool that is vastly improved in almost every way.
Full page cleaning, translate, and typeset
Text recognition and translation that was...
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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.
I'm happy to report that the new neural net is now smart enough to distinguish Saitama's head from a bubble.
So much has improved since. My new network is trained on almost 4000 pages of OPM (vs ~200 pages from last post) up to the Orochi bei...
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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 going on! There are some amazing people from the thread like hdx514 would post plain text translation almost immediately after the chapter is released.
So I wanted to see if it was possible through machine l...
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