Seeneva: smart comic reader

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About this app

A libre smart powered comic book reader.

Features:
• Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬
• Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀
• Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives.
• Supports different image formats on any Android device.
• View ComicRack metadata.
• Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions.
• Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86.
• Smart functionality performs locally on the device.
• Libre application under GPLv3 or later license.
• No ads, no personal data collection.

💬 Speech balloons zooming
Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger.

👀 OCR and TTS
Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader.

❗Note:
• No comic book included.
• OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now.

Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.

Ratings and reviews

This app was completely unusable and I had to uninstall after less than 5 minutes. First, I tried to open a zip file less than 50 Mb, and the app just froze. Next, I extracted the zip file to a folder, and used the app to open the individual jpg files. The app just gave an error message for every jpg. Meanwhile, I'm able to view the jpgs just fine in other apps. 1 star.

The core idea of this comic reader is a-mazing and the recognition of the speech bubbles is surprisingly accurate. Unfortunately it is not perfect, the viewer is just too simple and I'd say it has been discontinued. It is a 5 stars idea to me because I would LOVE to see this open source implementation in more full-fledge readers like Moon+ or ReadEra.

This app is absolutely brilliant with the bubble machine learning strategy. Just a suggestion: if that is possible, how hard would coding the guided view technology be? AI is also here and there's a handful of good open source AIs. So if it is possible to implement the guided view technology without investing a huge amount of time, I'd absolutely love it to see it in this app! (One app has it in a flawed way, but I think it's possible to execute it in an impeccable manner, such as the bubbles)

What's new

New:
- Added support for Android 13.
- New translations added. Thanks to the contributors!