# kha-white/mokuro

Read Japanese manga inside browser with selectable text.

Repository: https://github.com/kha-white/mokuro
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mokuro
Language: HTML
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: japanese, manga, ocr, comics, comics-reader, manga-reader
Last push: 2026-07-20T07:18:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 86/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 69, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1600, "days_push": 44, "days_rel": 44, "gap_med": 147, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1712, forks 119 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:25.906987+00:00)

## What it is
mokuro is a Python tool that performs text detection and OCR on Japanese manga pages and generates overlay files (.mokuro or HTML) enabling selectable text in a browser-based reader. It is designed for Japanese learners who want to read manga with pop-up dictionaries like Yomitan.

## Use cases
- read japanese manga with selectable text in browser
- ocr manga pages for japanese learning
- make manga text copyable for yomitan popup dictionary
- process manga volumes into mokuro files for web reader
- convert manga images to searchable text overlays
- set up manga reading workflow with dictionary lookups

## When to choose
- you are a Japanese learner wanting to read manga with a popup dictionary
- you need offline OCR processing of manga volumes
- you want selectable/searchable text overlaid on manga images in a browser

## When to avoid
- you need OCR for non-Japanese or non-comic documents
- you want a fully automatic online reader without preprocessing
- you cannot run Python or lack GPU/CPU resources for OCR models

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: ocr, computer-vision, image-processing, nlp
- domain: computer-vision, education, image-processing
- platform: python, cross-platform, browser
- tags: japanese, manga, manga-reader, yomitan, language-learning, selectable-text, natural-language-processing

## Member repositories
- kha-white/mokuro (main) score 86

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:25.906987+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:34:52.782190+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kha-white/mokuro (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:25.906987+00:00, sha b9f9c5a95319)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.