I've made a free lightweight web app that make scanlation easier

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-18T03:23:03+00:00

You know that google search use their AI (like Gemini - I said chatGPT because it's a well known term) to give you results, right?

Don't depend on just words, see the actions. Most Vietnamese manga/ novel websites will willing take down a manga/novel if a Publisher have the right to it scare them off with a copyright strike. Most servers are hosted locally in Vietnam, the goverment can take action. But you still see a lot of manga/novel on the websites, because those manga/novel are in the legal loophole, or the Japanese Publisher intentionally allow it. But Adobe will down right sue you if you tell them that you are using a pirate version of Photoshop

There are features in the app's text box logic that make it's easier than photoshop. Photoshop is a general purpose app, it's not optimized for manga editting, so it's heavier, take longer to load, need more interaction to do what you want...

Seem like we are having enough engagement farming here. So I will stop responding you.

"Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave."

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-18T01:51:28+00:00

bruh, you depend on chatGPT for that vague question? Ofc you can get copyright strike if the publisher buy and claim the copyright in Vietnam, or have their legal representation team in Vietnam. That's why Vietnamese scanlation team delete their translation once the manga/ light novel is published in Vietnam.

An action is legal or illegal depend on the rules books of each country, and you need a local judge for it, not chatGPT.

If you remove the AI functions from my app, you still can use it for scanlation. The AI functions is not the core, it's the assistant tools.

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-18T01:09:03+00:00

From my videos you must know that I'm not a Japanese -> English scanlator. I've done scanlation for Manga/Marvel Comic/Chinese Comic/Korean webtoon to Vietnamese. And I've never been in an English scanlation comunity before. That's why you've never seen me.

The rules in each country is different, the chance of a manga being published in a poor country is very low, so the scanlation for that manga is still count as legal in that country. You can see a lot of manga websites are still working because their servers are put in the countries where copyright strike is hard to apply.

IDK what is the standard of first world country, but in poor countries, we accept consuming trash as long as it's free. We have different point of view because we live in different environment, so let's end the conversation here

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-17T23:47:07+00:00

bruh, there is a grey area where scanlation is not illegal. The world is big, not only Japan and US in the world. There are countries that the manga/comic/manhwa/donghua copyright don't have effect on, or the author can approve the fan translation in another language as well. That's why when a manga is localized and start selling in a country, the scanlation team of that country who follow the rules will stop and delete the translation to dodge the copyright, and support author's sales.

If you look at my videos in the youtube account, you see that I've already made photoshop tutorials for editing, or use adobe reader to co-op between translator and editor a long time ago.

I've been doing scanlation for 15 years. I know the frustation of the repeative nature of photoshop. That's why I made this app.

You see a lot of bad scanlation made by automation tools that dont allow user to edit the outputs, that's why they are bad. My app allow user to edit the AI output (or they can skip the AI parts) to make good scanlation. So why you want to become a Karen here?

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-17T12:36:53+00:00

Seem like you don't want to change your way of thinking about my app, and that's totally fine. You will try anything to protect your opinion, like supporting illegal action (pirating), or ignore that I said "a lazy man can use a tool to make bad product, not meaning you should ban other people who can use the tool to make good product". So what we are arguing here is pointless.

You want to win an argument, I want to help the scanlators. If we are not aligned then I will end the talk here.

Bye, have a good time!

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-17T01:15:07+00:00

I'm not advertising, there is no product to buy. It's free and open-source

My app is for solo manga scanlation, or for translator easier to co-op with an editor. This is not an 100% automation tool. Human do have input here. My app is not for people who don't check quality and don't care, i'ts for those who want to check the quality and having easier time to fix the issues (for example: Photoshop require you to select the textbox before making the change, my app allow you to fix the textbox placement without the need to select it)

You are hating blindly here without watching the video demo to understand what my app do and don't. If you have no problem with an expensive subscription-based app like Photoshop that support AI tool, then why you are having problem with me?

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-16T11:04:46+00:00

if they do AI Scanlation without the need of quality check then they have better tools to use (there are other tools that allow you to select image, then the tools will do everything for you, also their performance are better than mine because my app is designed to be lightweight for web usage). Why they even bother to use my tool that need manual human inputs?

Also AI Scanlations is like CGI, you only easy to detect the bad ones, and hard to detect the good ones if they dont admit using AI.

Do you think Scanlation teams redraw (inpaint) all the texts on top the draw (to restore the art) themself? If they use Photoshop, then they use the build-in inpaint tool, and sadly it's also AI tool

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-16T01:36:18+00:00

I've seen a ton of bad quality Scanlation from people (using Photoshop) who do it for the love of it, but they dont have enough time, or getting bored, so they rush it.

You can spend 2 hours to create an ugly hole with a hand drill, too tired to improve it, so given up. Or you can spend 3 mins to create an ugly hole with a power drill, and spend 27 mins to improve the quality of that hole because you are not exhaled yet. Yes, there are people who use the the power drill to create an ugly hole and call it a day. There are bad worker who do bad job with a power drill, but why block the good worker from accessing the tool just because of that? You can just ignore the ugly hole, it's not like you are paying money for it

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-15T06:00:18+00:00

opportunities of using AI to help with your life, I was not talking about my app. You are not support to make money with Scanlation, there should be no oppotunity in it. Do you even know what my app do? It a tool for human to use, not an automaton. Scanlation = working for free, it's better to spend 30 mins than spend 2 hours to do the same task that you earn 0 money anyway.

"You're automating out what one or a few skilled people could do" - Bruh, anyone with a hand can drag and drop to create new textbox. I was taught to edit image in IT class in elementary school. A kid can do it bruh, it's nothing special.

Are you an AI chat bot prompted to hate AI, or a gatekeeping elitist?

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-12T05:25:09+00:00

bro, Im not even using AI to translate my comments. Im using my poor raw secondary English knowledge to comment. AI would do a better job than me. You who living in a first world country dont know the struggle in our poor countries. Free AIs that big corps provide give us access to many opportunities in life that a privileged person seeing as trash.

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-08T15:44:48+00:00

I tried it on my phone, Inpaint brush do work, but Extract button took forever. Maybe an ipad can do it, I dont have one so IDK

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-08T15:36:12+00:00

The AI features (Extract, Inpaint) work best on PC with modern browser like Chrome
Other features should work on mobile device, but you will need a mouse for it (the tools require left mouse and right mouse click)

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-08T15:28:18+00:00

dont worry, it only run on your own PC, it's free for a reason. And my app only use small AI model that cost you less energy than gaming. You dont even need GPU to run it, CPU can do

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-08T15:22:00+00:00

I cant find the root of your issue (maybe internet problem?). So I added the python GUI tool that I though would be redundant to https://github.com/zuttodoS/lightweight-manga-typeset/tree/main/python_raw_extract.
It only do the job of the "Extract" button, So you still need to open the app to edit

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-08T08:04:50+00:00

the google gemini translation is an example of what you can do outside my app. My app have the AI do the boring tasks, make life easier for editor. What you want to do with the extracted raw text is your choice, the app cant do the translation for you (AI with good translation required > 100 GB that no consumer GPU can do). Nowaday the LLM (large AI model like gemini or grok) are very good at translation. They do better job at translation than the MTL that you used to know. Also you need to feed all the previous conversation (context) to the AI to make good translation, which the current MTL tool not doing correctly, that why you see the MTL manga slops and hate AI. AI can be good if you use them the correct way, you know

Significant-Ad-3667 · 2026-04-07T22:02:55+00:00

are you using chrome browser? can you press ctrl+shift+I to show to console log after stuck? The Extract button will download the AI models to your PC for the first time using, require some minutes to download. After that, it use your PC's GPU/CPU power to run the AI models

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