Manga Translator
An easy-to-use application for translating text in images from Japanese to English.
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.
Note: This application should work on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems, but has only been tested on Windows.
Installation
Option 1: Download the binary directly (Windows only)
Visit the releases page to download the latest version.
go get
Option 2: # Manga Translator application
go get -u github.com/cameronkinsella/manga-translator/cmd/manga-translator
# Config setup application
go get -u github.com/cameronkinsella/manga-translator/cmd/manga-translator-setup
Note: manga-translator creates a mtl-config.yml and mtl-cache.bin in the same directory as the binary, so consider changing your GOPATH to a more suitable directory before installing.
Prerequisites
Mandatory:
- Google Cloud Vision API service account key
At least one of the following are required:
- Google Cloud Translation API key
- DeepL API key (Free or Pro)
Google Cloud Vision API
Follow steps 1-5 of this guide
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
This API key will be needed to configure manga-translator (if you want to use this translation service).
DeepL Translation API
- Create an account on deepl.com and sign up for one of the API plans
- 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:
- Run the
manga-translator-setup
application and follow the interactive prompts - Create the
mtl-config.yml
file manually by following the schema
Command
Usage: manga-translator.exe [OPTIONS] IMAGE_LOCATION
Options:
-url Use an image from a URL instead of a local file.
IMAGE_LOCATION must be a path or a URL.
Note: You can also open images with the
manga-translator
application itself (on Windows, you can easily do this by dragging the image on top ofmanga-translator.exe
)