# Manga OCR & Text Extractor — Japanese, Korean, Chinese | TranslateMyManga

Source page: https://translatemymanga.com/ocr

> Extract the text from a manga page, webtoon or screenshot — vertical Japanese, Korean and Chinese included — in reading order, ready to copy.

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

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Reading order preserved

# Manga OCR
Pull the text out of a page

Copy the raw Japanese, Korean or Chinese out of a comic page - in the order a human would read it, not the order a scanner finds it. Vertical text and speech balloons included.
example · 日本語 → English 6 BALLOONS

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:
Also translate to: Order:

JPG, PNG, WEBP - text comes back in reading order, right-to-left for manga

## What it does differently

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### Reading order, not scan order

Balloons are ordered right-to-left for manga and top-down for webtoons. A generic OCR hands you scrambled fragments.

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### Vertical Japanese

Tategaki is read as columns, not as a stack of unrelated single characters - the failure mode of every general-purpose OCR.

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### Knows what a balloon is

The same detector the translator uses tells dialogue apart from sound effects and from text printed on the artwork.

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### Translation alongside

Each line comes back with a translation next to it, so you can check the OCR without reaching for a second tool.

## Try it on a page you already have

Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.

[Back to the tool](https://translatemymanga.com/ocr)

## More tools on the same engine

One detector, one renderer, one balance — pick the entry that matches what you have.

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## Questions

### Is this the same engine as the translator?
Yes. The translator detects the balloons, reads the text and writes the translation back into the art. OCR mode stops after the reading step and hands you the text.

### Does it handle vertical Japanese?
Yes, and that is the main reason it exists. General OCR reads vertical text as a column of unrelated characters; here the balloon detector groups it first.

### Can I get the text without the translation?
Yes. Copy all text gives you the source text only, one line per balloon, in reading order.

### What about handwriting and sound effects?
Hand-lettered text and stylised SFX are the hardest case for any OCR. Printed dialogue is reliable; expect misses on heavy handwriting.