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Splitting comic books into panel
(sh.itjust.works)
Does anyone here know a self hostable service (or a demo of someone else hosting it) which can split common .cbr filetype to a .cbz or other filetype to split the panels?
So for example the 1 image I put with this post, would be 8 seperate images (pages).
That would ideally somehow make the comic books readable on a (somewhat old) black and white travel-Kobo...
isnt this more of an image vision task than a simple utility task?
I'd be amazed if each of those panels coordinates were annotated somewhere
i don't know any on computer but some app offer that on android/ios. i guess they look for some kind of contrast pattern to determine each frame.
Did try and it does work really well on some but not all garphics novel / comics
What's the name of the app you tried?
I am mainly reading on iPad due to screen ratio, I'm self hosting yacreader library and use yacreader app (server is free, app is one time payment on iPad, does have an android/windows client but not developed as iOS version). If I remember correctly, I think there is also Panel on ipad that do the same (would need to check). On android, I need to check and can answer tomorrow (almost 1am here), could be cdisplayex but unsure.
the coordinates aren't there i think, but there are github projects out there that "detect" the panels and suggest split based on that. For most of the panels of most of the comics, that would be more than enough to do a clean split. I just can't find a real relatively easily deployable service that incorporates it.
https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/comic-book-panel-segmentation/
Just following your above link, you could pre-convert your comics using this: https://framagit.org/nicooo/kumiko