readme: ---
  language: ja
  tags:
  - image-to-text
  license: apache-2.0
  datasets:
  - manga109s
  ---
  
  # Manga OCR
  
  Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga.
  
  It uses [Vision Encoder Decoder](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/model_doc/vision-encoder-decoder) framework.
  
  Manga OCR can be used as a general purpose printed Japanese OCR, but its main goal was to provide a high quality
  text recognition, robust against various scenarios specific to manga:
  - both vertical and horizontal text
  - text with furigana
  - text overlaid on images
  - wide variety of fonts and font styles
  - low quality images
  
  Code is available [here](https://github.com/kha-white/manga_ocr).
  