Mokuro

Best for: Reading manga with lookups

Overview

Free tool that runs text recognition on manga so you can read it in your browser with selectable Japanese text, which means pop-up dictionaries like Yomitan work on manga.

Strengths

Makes manga text selectable
Works with Yomitan

Drawbacks

Needs Python and the command line to run

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