Maciej Budyś

Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga. It uses Vision Encoder Decoder framework. 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 is available here.