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Alternative software

Piotr Grabowski edited this page Nov 7, 2022 · 6 revisions

Anime/video

Memento
An mpv-based video player that includes Yomichan-like dictionary lookup integrated right within the subtitle overlay as well as Anki support.
Animebook
An in-browser video player which allows easy Yomichan lookups and Anki card enhancement.
asbplayer
A browser-based media player for subtitle sentence mining. Supports various video streaming websites directly.
japReader
A pop-up dictionary program that can track known words.

Manga

mokuro
Takes manga images and generates HTML files where detected text blocks are overlaid with selectable text as recognized by “Manga OCR”, allowing for direct lookup with pop-up dictionaries.
Mangareader
An in-browser manga reader with built-in support for OCR-ing selected regions using an online API backed by “Manga OCR”. Can be used in tandem with Kamite with the help of the Clipboard Inserter browser extension.
Cloe
OCRs a screen selection to clipboard using “Manga OCR”.
Poricom
Manga reader with built-in “Manga OCR” and Tesseract support. Can also be used to capture text from external programs.
JL
A pop-up dictionary program for Windows with a convenient translucent UI that can be displayed on top of other windows. For manga, needs a separate program that can OCR to clipboard.
japReader
A pop-up dictionary program that can track known words. For manga, needs a separate OCR-to-clipboard program.
transformers_ocr
A simple Linux/Xorg OCR-to-clipboard script using “Manga OCR”.

Visual novels / games

Kamite’s own Region OCR is provided as an alternative to Textractor for games. Some other alternatives are:

Game2Text-Lightning
A Windows OCR-powered pop-up dictionary program for games and other desktop applications.
JL
A pop-up dictionary program for Windows with a convenient translucent UI that can be displayed on top of the game window. Needs Textractor with Copy to Clipboard extension or an external OCR-to-clipboard program.
japReader
A pop-up dictionary program that can track known words.
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