ACBR - Comic Book Reader

A comic book reader and converter for cbz, cbr, cb7, epub and pdf files.

Features:

Windows & GNU/Linux versions.
Compatible file formats:
- Comic books:
  - .cbz
  - .cbr
  - .cb7
  - .pdf
  - .epub
- Image files:
  - .jpg
  - .png
  - .webp
  - .avif
- Ebooks:
  - .pdf
  - .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
- 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 cbz and cb7 comic books.
- search for and import comic book metadata from Comic Vine (a Comic Vine API key is required for it to work).
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.

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.

vanja-san/comic-book-reader