anki_manga

Manga OCR & Mining for Anki

A Chrome extension for reading Japanese manga in the original and turning the lines you don’t know into Anki cards.

• OCR in your browser. It finds the speech bubbles on a manga page and reads their text on your own device (WebGPU, with a CPU fallback). The extension never uploads page images.
• Click a bubble. The side panel shows the line with furigana and a short English explanation of the grammar and nuance.
• Built-in dictionary. Click any word for its JMdict entry. Nothing to set up.
• One-click Anki cards. The “+” next to a word adds it to Anki (through AnkiConnect) with its reading and meaning, the sentence with furigana and its translation, the explanation and a picture of the bubble.

Explanations are free up to 100 per day with no account, or use your own DeepSeek or other OpenAI-compatible API key.

Get it

• Install from the Chrome Web Store
• Try it: a demo manga page (an original drawing) to test the extension on
• Source code, setup and troubleshooting: github.com/Suraba03/anki_manga

Privacy

The extension never uploads page images. The text of a bubble you click is sent only to get an explanation: to the free server with a pseudonymous random install ID, or to your own provider with your key. Turn Explanations off and no bubble text is sent. No analytics, no tracking. Read the privacy policy.

Licence

GPL-3.0-or-later. Dictionary data: JMdict by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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