Thread 283285039

What are you working on?

Are there any autocenter scripts that don't change the document DPI? Also, is IOPaint still the best free redrawing AI tool with its 4 years old Llama model? I saw pretty great screentone redrawings in the pics of that anon who adds huge tits to random characters with NovelAI, but if I wanted to pay for redrawing, I'd pay for PS generative fill instead.

>>283285039 (OP)
Sorry, but all the translations groups die after the purge

>>283285550
Yeah, even with complicated images it will works fine. Worst case scenario it fixes things to an enough degree that you can hide the few problems there are with text. Wouldn't be working on multiple manga if I didn't have it honestly.
>NovelAI
Huh, I never considered that you can use those services to do cleaning/redrawing. But I'm scared they might change some parts if used for that.

>>283285550
No, nano banana is way stronger now. 1 usd for 33 edits though.

>>283286882
weeaboo

>>283285550
https://github.com/jeffgyf/nano-banana-ps-plugin
You need to enable billing for the api key you're using, you get 300USD trial Google Cloud credit if it's the first time you use it. Expires after 90 days.
I find the results to be better if you use a 1:1 selection. CTRL+I to invert the mask and only expose the needed areas, for lower res raws most of the time it just blend in perfectly. For lossless raws you need to do some posterize + gradient map wizardry for it to look nice.

>>283287631
>>283287388
isn't nano-banana free in the chat interface? can't you just use it there?

Only advantage of low quality scans is that bad redrawing doesn't stand out as much as in high quality ones. It's a blessing when it comes to traced photos.

>>283286882
the only bad option is to not stick to a style

>>283286882
ai redraw makes maggot so accessible now

>>283287388
Wow, it's pretty amazing. I tried the free chat version and 1:1 snippets look insanely good after bicubic sharp downscaling to the original size, screentones and all. Had to partially censor some images though, it's very paranoid about even slightly risque content.
>>283287631
Thanks, will try.

>>283286387
Where the hell do you even upload releases now?

>>283291485
4chinz and leddit

Assuming it's a proper scan, what's the right filtering order for unfucking shit paper magazine scans?

>>283292746
If you get bleed-through even with black construction paper behind it, no amount of filters will help you.
Normally you'd level the fuck out of it and hope it looks ok. If it doesn't, you'd have to manually touch up until you stop caring and accept that you did more than enough.

I never had to deal with it personally, but if I really cared about it, I'd try to invert the backside of the page, mirror it, and try to reverse the bleed-through with the actual drawings from the other side. Pretty sure the result would still be subpar, but it's worth a try.
Do you have any examples for me to try?

How do I get tesseract to OCR manga?

>>283293107
https://github.com/blueaxis/Poricom
It seems to not be updated anymore, but still works pretty well. Maybe other anons know if there's something newer and better.

My PC died and I haven't been able to do any typesetting in almost two months and it's making me go insane.

If you were enjoying Rice Shoulder I'm sorry, it'll be back as soon as I can

>>283293157
I want to produce pdf with searchable text.

>>283293107
>>283293157
Panel Cleaner can use tesseract afaik.

>>283285550
>Also, is IOPaint still the best free redrawing AI tool with its 4 years old Llama model?
Works perfectly fine. If you're going to pay for something, you might as well pay for photoshop then.

Arrrrggghhhh, stupid gemini reads the text before removing and refuses to do so if there are dirty jokes.

>>283293505
Have you tried learning Japanese

>>283293528
That won't help me with redrawing.

>>283293536
I don't know shit about AI, can't you just mindbreak them and tell them you're gonna unplug them or something if they don't do it or did they remove that

>>283294093
I doubt I could do that to a google model, it's way too brainwashed. I just mask the text with green and tell it to remove green shapes instead.

>>283293107
I use Mokuro but it's not perfect. Fortunately someone uplodaded 30 gb of OCR'd manga which is a life saver to immerse.
For new stuff, even with the CUDA it can be slow for high res full volumes (7 to 10 minutes). The average low quality raw tends to have more mistakes with handakuten and very dense kanji, for obvious reasons. The bounding boxes may get split and overlapped in the weirdest of ways, etc.
The JSON output is not the friendliest of formats but you could spend a couple of hours vibe-coding some script to rearrange the text based on the positions of the bounding boxes and create a regular formatted document, but it would most likely have a bunch of improper line breaks, and misrecognized characters.

It's also terrible at background hand written notes and sfx.

>>283285039 (OP)
We need decentralization for manga

>>283285039 (OP)
Currently working on Rororro! with MS Paint, an open source MTL and my N5 Japanese to try and make something readable. I've just started, but after I finish it I'm hoping to give Momoiro Meloik a go. I'm surprised by how these works by major authors haven't been picked up by another scanalator.

>>283295491
Please don't.

>>283295635
Okay. I'll keep working on Rororro! and I am more than happy for you to pick up either series.

I’m gonna just let banana draw my sfx from now on

>>283290907
the worst are people who don't translate anything outside a speech bubble, even when it's extra dialogue

>>283297385
I don't translate editor comments. I hate them.

When it's not innit it's AI shilling, tragic what these threads have become

>>283297385
In almost all cases that's because it's hand written text and OCR struggles to read it.

>>283291485
I still use MD.

>>283293170
Just glad to know you're alive and haven't dropped it, anon.

>>283298807
I'm not nostalgic for the days where redrawing a page takes an entire evening because the author was in the mood for a "the entire text over traced photos" special.

>>283298807
Redrawing is soulless to begin with, it’s better replaced by AI

>>283298807
Being vehemently anti-AI Amish is as dumb as the bubble-humping AI shills who believe it's replacing god. Nothing wrong with letting it do the simplest grunt work then manually trimming the edges if it saves hours of mindless effort per chapter.

>>283300227
It isn't. AI is cancer so any positive talk about it does harm to everyone. The two are not in the same league.

Is there a way to change the image mode of all PSDs in a folder without doing it manually?
Been changing them from Gray to RGB because when making PNGs at the end the images come out a little darker from the raws for some reason.

Did the guys who were doing Meaheim really drop it?

>>283301299
Why not use an action (i.e., a macro) for that?
You can combine it with the Image Processor (I have a 2024 cracked version but it should still exist in CC) to run it in batch for a specific folder.
One of the default actions is the reverse (RGB to Grayscale) which you can use as a template to know what to do, or tweak it accordingly.

Someone told me this >>283099986
First time I ever heard of it. How do I tell if something is or not subsampled and does it really matter for monochrome pages?

The four horsemen of a shit doujinshi translation:
>CCWildWords
>Shit bubble spacing
>Untranslated/non-typeset cover page
>No redrawing
Any others?

>>283292936
Bleed-through is a given, it's shit paper after all. But no, I'm talking about raping scans with the likes of Topaz to boost details that would get completely fucked if you level it normally AND clean (most of it) at the same time. People used to have automated actions for this back in the day, so there must be proper order and tricks to it, right? I just want to know the general theory behind it so I can moderately apply it whenever I need it.

>>283300227
It's basically just a better content aware fill in this case. Being against it on principle is retarded. It's like these niggers complaining about the east wing of the white house just on principle, even though they wouldn't have cared if it weren't for trump. It's so fucking annoying.

>>283303720
Crazy how pinpoint you just narrowed down your demographic for no reason whatsoever. Indigestion of the conscience I suppose.

Idk im a lefty but i value my time

>>283303990
you're on 4chinz, if you want woke garbage that cater to your bullshit then you can leave for plebbit

>be me
>download academic paper a few months back
>every month get a digest of papers related to my topic of interest
>see this

>>283301299
>images come out a little darker from the raws
Press Shift+Ctrl+K to go to Color Settings and make sure your Gray is set to sGray.

>>283302747
The files look absolutely identical to me at 100% scale, so it doesn't matter in the slightest.

>>283303269
>I want an action that does all my work.
This ain't magic.
>Topaz
Topaz works wonders when blurring color scans but the screentones in black and white images would throw it off.
You can not perfectly separate noise from detail. Much less so automatically. You will always have a trade-off between loss of detail and cleanness of the scans.
>People used to have automated actions for this back in the day
Yeah, and we totally went to the moon, we just lost the technology, teehee.

Without examples I'll have a hard time figuring out what to recommend. The proper order of actions is always decided case-by-case (book-by-book).

>>283293170
same as the other anon, I'm just glad to know you're still alive and didn't drop it

is the "/a/nonymous" group from mandadex in the room with us?
if yes I want to help cleaning/redrawing "Tensei ni Hakobijin no Isekai Kouryakuhou"

>>283297385
It's bad but they better at least be consistent with it

>>283306365
the /a/nonymous group on mangadex is used by a bunch of people of /a/, mostly the live TLs you see like the one for itoko no ko here >>283300767
just post the chapter and see if you can get any interest

>>283285039 (OP)
What's the consensus on donations? I was recently offered some and have no clue what to do.
On one hand:
>I do this to learn some more nip and to """give back""" for all the fan translated shit I read
>personal principles just scream to not take any money because I didn't make the manga and any money belongs to author
But on the other hand:
>a fool is easily parted with his money
>retards who donate to scanlators are retarded whales who will probably spend said donation money on gacha slop instead if I don't accept

>>283306365
I can't get over how much the left girl's breasts look like ass in bikini

>>283306504
it's just I went through the archive and I didn't find a single thread whatever if it's a dump or a discussion about this series.
only some single posts.
so I was a little confused seeing /a/nonymous as the scanlator and yet not a single soul here talks/post about it.

>>283306365
if they're already working on it it's much easier if you contact them through mangadex rather than hoping they're in this thread and see your message

>>283306527
Accept and give them early access to chapters.

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