Bubble Blaster is a python script that remove text from speech bubbles in mangas/manhwas with OCR.
Install python (Make sure your python version is NOT more than 3.11):
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3119/Download the latest release and unzip it.
https://github.com/Aeonss/BubbleBlaster/releases/latest/If you have a compatible GPU, install CUDA for faster OCRs.
https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-microsoft-windows/index.html
Run the "INSTALL_DEPENDENCIES.bat" file on the first run
Run the "BubbleBlaster.bat" file included in the release.
To install manually, git clone the repository, install dependencies and run bubbleblaster.py
git clone https://github.com/Aeonss/BubbleBlaster
pip install -r requirements.txt
python bubbleblaster.py
- Click on the "Import Image(s)" button to select the images you want to OCR (remove the text of)
- You can select 1 image, or multiple by ctrl + clicking the images or drag selecting them
- Select the language that the text is in
- By default, the language is Korean, but Chinese, Japanese, and English is also supported.
- Please request for more languages here
- Select the confidence level by dragging the slider
- Confidence level is how "sure" the AI is that the text is the language you selected
- By default, the confidence level is 0.4.
- The higher the number, the less likely text is recognized and OCR'd, but the text is more likely to be the selected language
- The lower the number, the more likely that more text is recognized and OCR'd, but the text may include symbols or parts of the art
- Select which texts to remove
- You can select chosen outlined text or click the "select all" button to remove all chosen text
- Select any additional options
- "Export raw text" option will give a text file (.txt) of the text that the program OCR'd
- "Export translated text" option will give a text file (.txt) of the translated text that the program OCR'd
- BubbleBlaster was created with EasyOCR and Deep-Translator.
- Please request any features or report any bugs in issues.
- Add a drag and select in the preview to manually select areas to inpaint
- Add zoom feature for large images in preview
- Add right click to move around in preview
BubbleBlaster is released under the MIT license.