Seeneva: smart comic reader

RustyCoder

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

I like the app conceptually, I can also tell it's had some effort put into it. On top of this, no one that I can find has attempted this same kind of app style, so you really have that in your favor. Anyway, text to speech recognition is a bit weird, it'll pronounce words very strangely. Even the most basic and common words can often have a weird weird pronunciation. Text to speech also will also speak in broken sentences sometimes as the AI has trouble recognizing some words. Don't give up!

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.

What’s new

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