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

Untranslated

Translated

Dependencies

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