Manga Translator

An easy-to-use application for translating text in images in many languages.

The GUI was created using Gio. Gio supports a variety of platforms, including browsers, but this application was designed to be used as a desktop application only.

Image source: うずまき 1巻

Installation

Option 1: Download the binary directly (Windows only)

Visit the releases page to download the latest version.

Option 2: go install

Manga Translator application:

go install github.com/cameronkinsella/manga-translator/cmd/manga-translator@latest

Config setup application:

go install github.com/cameronkinsella/manga-translator/cmd/manga-translator-setup@latest

Prerequisites

Mandatory:

• Google Cloud Vision API service account key

At least one of the following are required:

• Google Cloud Translation API enabled
• DeepL API key (Free or Pro)

Google Cloud Vision API

Quick guide:

1. Enable the Cloud Vision API

2. Enable the IAM API

3. Press the button below to create a new service account key:

   

This will create a service account key for the Vision API. The path to this JSON key will be needed to configure manga-translator.

Google Cloud Translation API

Quick guide:

• Enable the Cloud Translation API

If you are using the same project as your Cloud Vision API and service key, then that is all.

If you are using a different project for the Cloud Vision API, you must also do the following:

• Press the button below to create a new Cloud Vision API key:

  

DeepL Translation API

1. Create an account on deepl.com and sign up for one of the API plans
2. Copy your API key from your account menu

This API key will be needed to configure manga-translator (if you want to use this translation service).

Usage

First Time (configuration)

Do one of the following:

1. Run the manga-translator-setup application and follow the interactive prompts
2. Create the mtl/mtl-config.yml file manually by following the schema

Command

Usage: manga-translator.exe [OPTIONS] [IMAGE_LOCATION] [IMAGE_LOCATION]...


Arguments:
  IMAGE_LOCATION   The path or URL of the image (not required if using -clip option).

Options:
  -url             Use images from URLs instead of local files.
  -clip            Use an image from your clipboard.

Note: On Windows you can also open it by dragging images on top of manga-translator.exe

GUI

Coloured boxes will appear around all the text that was detected. Click on those boxes to display the original text and the translation of that text.

You can click on the text in the "Original Text" or "Translated Text" sections to copy that text to your clipboard.

If you selected multiple images, you can navigate through them using the left and right arrow keys or the A and D keys.