# Doujin Translator — Translate Doujinshi Online | TranslateMyManga Source page: https://translatemymanga.com/doujin > AI doujinshi translator for self-published, all-ages comics: hand-lettered pages and dense sound effects. Automatic pass first, then draw a box over anything it missed. Plain-text version of this page for AI assistants and readers. Site overview: https://translatemymanga.com/llms.txt Prices and plan details change; the current ones are on https://translatemymanga.com/pricing --- Self-published comics · hand-lettering · dense SFX # Doujin translator for the hard pages Doujinshi — comics self-published by independent artists and circles — is hand-lettered, SFX-heavy and full of margin notes: the exact material that makes ordinary OCR give up. This doujinshi translator does an automatic first pass, then you fix what it missed by drawing a box. All-ages works only: sexually explicit pages aren't allowed. See our [terms](https://translatemymanga.com/terms). example · 日本語 → English HANDWRITTEN NOTES RAW · 日本語 TRANSLATED · English An example page, not your upload — drag the divider to compare. Drop your own page in and this becomes your result. Drop a page here, or click to browse JPG · PNG · WEBP · PDF · CBZ · CBR — up to 20 MB Paste a screenshot or an image link anywhere on this page — or try one: Translate to: Order: Japanese · Korean · Chinese → 30+ languages. ## Why this material is harder Four reasons the automatic pass alone won't cut it here. 01 ### Hand-lettering everywhere Doujinshi is often lettered by hand, not typeset. Stroke shapes vary page to page, which is exactly where OCR trained on printed manga falls apart. 02 ### SFX density Fan works lean much harder on sound effects drawn into the art. Those are erased stroke by stroke and redrawn in place with an outline, not treated like a balloon. 03 ### Tiny marginalia Author notes squeezed into gutters and page edges at half the body size — usually the funniest part, usually the part tools drop. 04 ### The manual box matters more For this material an automatic pass is a first draft. Drawing a box over what the model missed — and paying one credit for just that region — is the normal workflow, not the exception. ## The workflow for hard pages Automatic first, manual where it matters. For this material that order is not optional. 1 ### Run the automatic pass Balloons, margin notes and sound effects are found and translated in one go. Treat what comes back as a first draft, not a finished page. 2 ### Fix what it missed Draw a box over a bubble the model skipped and it reads just that region, then merges the result into the page. Hand-lettering is where detectors trained on printed manga give up, so expect to do this. 3 ### Download or keep it Save the PNG, or find the finished page in your library for 30 days — every manual box is recorded there too, so you can see what each page really cost. ## Six things this material demands Self-published work breaks assumptions that printed-manga tools are built on. STROKES ### Hand-lettering Letter shapes vary page to page and sometimes panel to panel. Models trained on typeset text degrade here, which is why the manual box works on every plan — including the free one — rather than being sold as an upgrade. MARGINS ### Author notes Squeezed into gutters at half the body size, often the funniest part of the book, and usually the first thing a detector drops. EFFECTS ### SFX density Fan work leans much harder on effects drawn straight into the art. Those need redrawing in place, not balloon replacement. CONTROL ### Read just this box Draw a box over anything missed and the model looks at just that region for one credit, instead of rerunning the whole page and hoping. TERMS ### Invented vocabulary Circles coin their own terminology. The model reads the whole page at once, so a term used twice on a page comes out the same twice — across a book, check the first appearance and fix with a box where it drifts. PRIVACY ### Nothing kept Pages are processed and discarded. Only page count, language and timing are stored, so credits add up and nothing else does. ## Why the usual tools struggle here Doujinshi breaks the assumptions that printed-manga OCR is built on. TranslateMyManga Standard manga OCR Lettering Handles hand-drawn strokes Trained on typeset text Margin notes Picked up at half body size Below the detection threshold SFX density Redrawn in place with an outline Skipped When it fails Draw a box, it reads just that region No recourse — rerun and hope Context Whole page translated in one pass Balloon by balloon, no context ## Where it gets used ### Convention hauls Books bought at an event that will never be scanned, let alone translated. This is often the only way they get read in another language. ### Fan circles localising their own work You drew it, so there is nothing to argue about. Run the book, fix the lettering, publish in two languages. ### Archivists Older self-published work with no digital release anywhere. The margin notes are usually the part worth preserving. ### Anthology contributors A shared book where every contributor letters differently. Per-balloon control matters more than raw automatic accuracy. ## Start with one page Try the sample pages with no account; signing in free gives you 30 pages of your own. The manual box works on every plan, not gated behind a tier. [Translate a page](https://translatemymanga.com/) ## More tools on the same engine One detector, one renderer, one balance — pick the entry that matches what you have. 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Partly. Treat the automatic pass as a first draft, then click Draw a box under the result and drag over what it missed — the model reads just that region for one credit. For this material that's the normal workflow. ### What about sound effects drawn into the art? Those need the original pixels reconstructed underneath, which is the slowest step in the pipeline. It's on paid plans; the free tier replaces text inside balloons only. ### Can I keep terminology consistent across a series? Within a page, yes — every balloon is translated in one pass with the full page as context. A pinned series glossary isn’t available yet; if you need it, tell us. ### What content is allowed? All-ages work that you have the right to use: your own, your circle's, or a book you bought for your own reading. Sexually explicit pages aren't allowed, and accounts that keep uploading them are suspended. See our [terms](https://translatemymanga.com/terms) and [DMCA policy](https://translatemymanga.com/dmca). ### How accurate is it on hand-lettered text? Lower than on typeset pages, and that gap is why the manual box is on every plan rather than sold as an upgrade. Budget time for a pass over the page. ### Can I translate a whole book? Yes — drop a ZIP, CBZ, CBR or PDF into the chapter translator. Pages are unpacked in reading order and come back as a CBZ or ZIP. ### Does it read furigana? Small ruby text above kanji is picked up, but it is usually a pronunciation guide rather than content, so it is not lettered into the output separately. ### Are my uploads stored? The copy sent to the translation model is deleted as soon as the page is translated. What's kept in your library, and for how long, is set out in the [privacy policy](https://translatemymanga.com/privacy).