Mokuro: Read Japanese manga with selectable text inside a browser

[_Quinton]

The mokuro file is just JSON with a pages array with position and content of all the OCR’d text bubbles. I didn’t find any documentation for it, but it’s pretty self-describing – I think it’s basically the same data that was originally bundled into the generated html.

I think it’s an improvement, design-wise because it allows for decoupling the converted manga and the viewer app (or other tools), and you can do things like throw all the page images plus the .mokuro file in a .zip and have a convenient package. reader.mokuro.app will ingest these and stow everything in localStorage in your browser.

My little viewer thing is able to open a .mokuro file and use it to let you flip through pages, see the OCR’d data, etc. Should be pretty straightforward to hold on to any edits in localStorage and allow one to save a modified .mokuro file back out again – at least that’s what I’m aiming for.

[Akashelia]

I use Dropbox and can open the same mokuro files on my laptop or computer that (don’t use it on mobile though) (I do lose the progress between devices but I don’t use that anyway)

[shitsurei]

@ChristopherFritz

The main issue using the base Mokuro is that (as @_Quinton mentioned) it stores your progress in your browser’s local storage, and that doesn’t sync between devices

ah, bummer. If you (or anyone else) comes across the fork with progress saving lmk. That’s definitely something I’d poke around at to get to work for me.

@Gorbit99

For the books, any http server would just work. You just need to host the html file itself

Since the progress is in local storage, it doesn’t seem like this will work, but also, duh This is at least a good reminder for some of the other things I might want to do in the future.

@Akashelia

I use Dropbox and can open the same mokuro files on my laptop or computer

This might end up being the easiest solution for my use case. I track my progress on Natively anyway so I could just grab my last read page from there if I needed to to switch devices. It’s not the most elegant solution, but it does solve my problems.

Thanks for the help, all!

[Phryne]

@shitsurei

The last 10% is that I want to be able to “host” the files on my desktop and be able to read them from that desktop, my laptop, or mobile devices on my local network. Basically I’d love to have a Plex server for my mokuro manga. Bonus points if this could also put my ebooks in it (so a mokuro + ttsu server) but that’s pretty pie in the sky.

You could give this a try. It’s been my personal project, so I’ve made it with my own reading preferences in mind, but who knows, they might overlap with yours.

A big thanks to @ChristopherFritz, by the way. Seeing your awesome projects in this thread back in March 2023 inspired me to start learning how to program. I never would have guessed that I would be starting a job as a web developer 1.5 years later So I guess you changed my life

[shitsurei]

Wow that looks amazing.
I dislike dealing with Docker (I’m old) but I may need to put on my big girl pants to check it out.