Most manga translation tools hand back a chapter where character names change spelling every chapter and the dialogue reads like a manual. KomaLume keeps a per-series glossary so names and terms stay consistent, and tone profiles so dialogue sounds like people talking. Upload a chapter (images or ZIP) and it detects the bubbles, erases the original text, translates, and re-typesets the result back onto the page. A Chrome extension pulls in the chapter you already have open.
Hey Product Hunt š
I kept running into series that never get an official translation in my language, and every machine-translation tool I tried had the same two problems: character names changed spelling between chapters, and the dialogue read like a manual.
So I built KomaLume. You upload a chapter and it detects the speech bubbles, erases the original text, translates, and re-typesets the result back onto the page. Translated chapters get organized into series in your own library, so you read them on the site like a normal reader.
The two things I spent most of the time on:
⢠A per-series glossary, so names and terms stay consistent across every chapter
⢠Tone profiles, so dialogue reads naturally instead of like raw MTL
There's a Chrome extension too ā it grabs the pages of whatever chapter you have open and sends them straight in.
Free tier if you want to run a chapter through it.
I'd love feedback on the typesetting quality especially ā that's the part that was hardest to get right. Happy to answer anything.