ACBR - Comic Book Reader

A comic book reader and converter for CBZ, CBR, CB7, EPUB and PDF files.

Features:

Windows & Linux versions.
Compatible file formats:
- Comic books:
  - CBZ, CBR, CB7, PDF and EPUB.
- Image files:
  - JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF.
- Ebooks:
  - PDF and EPUB.
Including password protected PDF, CBZ (AES encryption not supported), CB7 and CBR files.
Windowed (simple UI) and full-screen (no UI) modes.
'Fit to width', 'fit to height' and a customizable 'scale to height' page views.
Page rotation.
UI available in:
- English, Spanish, Russian and German.
Automatically restores the previous session's last opened book and page, and remembers the last books' page positions.
Portable mode (by creating a file named portable.txt in the same folder as the executable).
ComicInfo.xml editor:
- View the metadata stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside CBR, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- Create and/or modify the metadata stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside unencrypted CBR*, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
- Search for and import comic book metadata from Comic Vine (a Comic Vine API key is required).
Integrated audio player:
- Supports MP3, Ogg, WAV, M3U and M3U8 files.
- Can export playlists to M3U files.
Tools:
- Convert/Resize:
  - Comic books (CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB to CBR*, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB).
  - Images (JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP).
- Create:
  - A comic book (CBR*, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB) from a list of image files and/or comic books.
  - A QR code image from text.
- Extract:
  - Comic book pages (to JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP).
  - Text (OCR) from a comic book page or image file.
  - A QR code's text from a comic book page or image file.
  - A color palette from a comic book page or image file.
    - Can be exported to a GPL or ACO palette file.
- Other:
  - Search and open books/comics from:
    - Digital Comics Museum.
    - Internet Archive Books.
    - Project Gutenberg.
    - xkcd Webcomics.
  - Search and open audiobooks from:
    - Librivox AudioBooks.
  - Search dictionary terms from:
    - Wiktionary Dictionary.

(*) Creating and modifying CBR files are disabled by default. They can be enabled in the preferences but require a third-party command-line tool (rar from WinRAR) to be installed in the system.

Basic Controls:

Toolbar :
- Buttons: 'Open file', 'Previous page', 'Next page', 'Fit to width', 'Fit to height', 'Rotate counterclockwise', 'Rotate clockwise' and 'Toggle fullscreen'.
- Slider: use it to quickly go to any page in the book.
Keys:
- 'Right arrow' or 'Page down' to go the next page.
- 'Left arrow' or 'Page up' to go to the previous one.
- 'Up arrow' to scroll the page up, 'Down arrow' to scroll the page down.
- 'WASD' to scroll the page vertically and horizontally.
- 'F11' to toggle full-screen mode.
- 'Ctrl+O' to choose a file to open.
- 'Ctrl++' and 'Ctrl+-' to zoom in or zoom out the view. 'Ctrl+0' to reset it.
Mouse:
- 'Scroll wheel' scrolls the page up and down.
- 'Left-click' opens the next page if the right side of the view area is clicked and the previous page if the left side is clicked.
- 'Right-click' opens a context menu with some basic navigation options.
- 'Ctrl+Scroll wheel' to zoom in or zoom out the view.

Downloads:

Contributions:

Russian localization by vanja-san
German localization by Timo Heidutzek (trzyglow)

There's info about how to contribute to the project in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Related Projects:

ACBT - Comic Book Tools
- Stand-alone, command-line version of some of the tools available in ACBR.

License:

ACBR's code is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. To check the licenses of the node modules and other libraries used in the project go to the licenses folder.

Other:

Screenshots, more details about the controls and other extra information can be found on the project's Wiki.

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