Manga OCR

Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga.

It uses Vision Encoder Decoder framework.

Manga OCR can be used as a general purpose printed Japanese OCR, but its main goal was to provide a high quality text recognition, robust against various scenarios specific to manga:

• both vertical and horizontal text
• text with furigana
• text overlaid on images
• wide variety of fonts and font styles
• low quality images

Code is available here.