Ichigo Reader

What Ichigo Reader is

Ichigo Reader is a comic image translation tool. It uploads comic pages, recognises speech-bubble text, translates it and exports draft translations, aimed at readers, translators and image localisers processing material they are entitled to use.

What you can do with it

• Read foreign comics with translated text
• Draft a localisation pass
• Pre-process licensed assets
• Study language in context

Who it is for

• Comic readers
• Translators
• Localisation teams

What to watch out for

• Comics are copyrighted: publishing fan translations of unlicensed work is infringement even with good tooling
• OCR misses stylised fonts and overlapped bubbles; tone, titles and proper nouns need human proofreading
• Typesetting restoration for publication-grade output is a separate craft
• Confirm the copyright status of source images before processing