Open-Source Manga Translator: Local LLM + Japanese OCR With Page-Aware Chat
Gladioul666 · reddit · 2026-10-29
A Reddit user released Manga Translator Tool, an open-source desktop app for reading manga with local AI translation. Stack: Qwen3.5-ocr-jp-2b (GGUF) for Japanese OCR, uncensored Gemma 4 E2B for translation/chat, llama.cpp inference with CPU/GPU support.
Highlights:
- Preserves original artwork and Japanese text; translations render as overlay boxes (no inpainting)
- Translations saved as image metadata, toggle between original/translated views
- Full-text search of extracted dialogue; OCR handles onomatopoeia too
- Page-aware companion LLM: ask about wording, cultural references, localization choices with selectable context (text/translation/image)
- In-app model downloads; Windows/Linux/macOS builds and video walkthrough with full setup
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