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+language: ja
+tags:
+- image-to-text
+license: apache-2.0
+datasets:
+- manga109s
+---
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+# Manga OCR
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+Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga.
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+It uses [Vision Encoder Decoder](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/visionencoderdecoder) framework.
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+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 for inference is available [here](https://github.com/kha-white/manga_ocr).
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+Code for training will be released soon.