README.md

metadata

title: Manhwa Panel Extractor
emoji: 📚
colorFrom: blue
colorTo: purple
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.23.3
python_version: '3.10'
app_file: app.py
pinned: false

Manhwa Panel Extractor

Scrolling through manhwa pages on your phone is a pain, there's just too much white space. Plus I sometimes like to make memes from just the image.

What It Does

• Extracts Panels: Slices manhwa pages into individual panels.
• Refines Them: Removes speech bubbles using HSV magic.
• Processes Chapter Batches: Accepts a chapter folder upload or a ZIP of many chapter folders, then returns a ZIP with the same chapter layout and flat sequential panel files inside each chapter.

Setup

1. Get Python: 3.8+
2. Install the requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Run the main extractor on an image or directory

   python manhwa-extractor.py jinwoo.jpg
   

4. Extracts panels in a folder of the image or directory name with _output appended

There's a few other options to extract it in different ways if you want to play around with that.

Web Interface

You can also use the Gradio web interface if you're not good with CLI's:

python gradio_app.py

This launches a local web app at http://localhost:7860 where you can:

• Upload images through your browser
• Adjust extraction settings with sliders
• Preview extracted panels in a gallery
• Download all panels as a ZIP file

Potential Improvements

• Have a way of doing automatic inpainting on leftover/partial speech bubbles