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I need something like this but for image viewers and for manga/manhwa. It always amazes me how there's options for this on mobile, even on IOS, but desktop linux doesn't have anything comparable that has integrated text recognition and translation overlay.
Can you share those options? I'm curious.
I'm just going by what the default image viewer on iOS is capable of:
Which is pretty yank, but I know that there's also Google Lens on android, which does a lot better job, so I assume there's actual better, more manga reading suited software out there for both mobile OSes.
I saw some implementation on Linux that worked a bit, but...