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CLUSTER MANGA-OCR-READING · 6 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2022-05-14

OCR manga translation apps

This cluster comprises mobile and desktop apps that use OCR and AI translation to overlay or process manga and comic text for reading and language learning. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only three dated entries exist before the index start, predating the index or leaving many members undated. Traction is led by ImmersiveComicReadingTranslation with three stars, while xianscan and FumetoReaderPlus each have two stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2022: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
MAY 2022OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 4 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 6 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01DrPilot_V42★18 days—hobbyDesktop app that captures screenshots from an Android device, uses a vision model to recognize textbook questions, and exports them by chapter.
  2. 02ImmersiveComicReadingTranslation3★2 mo—Mobile app that provides floating OCR translation for reading comics and manga, overlaying AI translations on screenshots for immersive reading.
  3. 03MangaLens0★1 mo—hobbyAndroid overlay app that captures the screen, runs OCR, and overlays translations for reading manga and comics.
  4. 04PS-Editor0★1 mo—indieDesktop app that translates manga pages end-to-end through text detection, OCR, inpainting, AI translation, and automatic typesetting.
  5. 05Kaku0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAndroid app that uses OCR to look up Japanese words on device screen, aiding learners in reading manga and games.
  6. 06OCR Translator0★unknownliveai-builtApp that scans images containing text and translates the extracted text into another language for the reader.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.