Please tell us who you are and what you are gonna do with ImageTrans. If you are from academic institutions, you can email to with your institution’s email to get a discount. Please follow the installation instruction.
Automatic detection of background color and text colorĬome to me, Love - From issue 41, Boy Loves Girls (Golden age comics).Like BasicCAT, ImageTrans is cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux). With the Chrome Extension, it is possible to translate pictures on web pages directly.It can export the data to Excel, Word, XLIFF files, or import data from these files.It can use scripts to save the results as Photoshop’s PSD files.
All the above operations support manual adjustment. It can refill the translation and automatically adjust the font size according to the position and area of text regions.
The software can use tools and algorithms like Sickzil-Machine, binarization, PatchMatch to generate text mask and remove text. It has a sound effects words search engine designed for translating comics.
It also supports translation memory, corpus concordance, term management and other common functions of computer-aided translation software. It can call a variety of machine translation engines.
It supports online OCR services such as Google, Baidu, Sogou and Youdao, and offline OCR engines such as Tesseract, PaddleOCR and Windows 10’s built-in OCR engine. It can use natural scene text detection, object detection and a heuristic method to detect text. ImageTrans is the result of the thesis for my master’s degree: Design and Implementation of a Computer-Aided Comics Translation Tool. ImageTrans can be used not only as an image translator, but also an image reader, an image transcriber and a deep learning annotator. The original text can be automatically erased and the translation be reinjected. It can automatically locate text areas and perform OCR operations using state-of-art OCR technology and a homebrew text areas merging and detecting algorithm, which is specially designed for comics (also webtoon, manga, manhwa and manhua). This makes our cloud-based tools very secure.ImageTrans is a computer-aided image and comic translation tool. Our cloud-based online tools use HTTPS to encrypt your data sent to and downloaded from our cloud infrastructure, and only you have access to your data (unless you have chosen to share it). Sometimes however this is not optimal or possible for tools which for example require high processing power, display maps aware of your current location, or allow you to share data. We work hard to make our tools run locally on your device since avoiding sending data over the internet is more secure.
To achieve this we use HTML5 and WebAssembly, a form of code that is run by the browser itself allowing our tools to execute at near-native speed. All the work is done locally by the browser itself, making these tools very fast and secure. Our online tools which execute locally on your device don't need to send your data (your files, your audio or video data, etc.) over the internet. Protecting your privacy is one of our main concerns when developing our tools. We develop secure online tools that are cloud-based or that execute locally on your device.