What is dragonmeow-mangatranslator?

DragonMeow-MangaTranslator is a tool that translates manga images from one language to another automatically, handling the full pipeline in one step. You drag a manga page, a folder of pages, or a zip archive of chapters into a browser tab running locally on your machine. The tool detects speech bubbles, reads the original text with OCR, sends it to an AI service for translation, erases the source text with an inpainting model, and renders the translated version inside the original bubble. The result looks like a native layout rather than a text overlay. The tool runs a small web server locally, launched from start.bat on Windows or start.sh on Mac. There is no cloud intermediary: your manga images stay on your machine. You connect one AI service of your choice for the translation step. The tool supports Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, Mistral, and others, plus custom API endpoints. Gemini is the recommended starting point because it has a free monthly allowance. After translation, an editor lets you fine-tune individual panels. You can change the translated text, font size, color, weight, letter spacing, and text direction (horizontal or vertical). Changes preview on the right side as you edit, and the finished images can be exported as a zip file. Version 1.3 added a Chrome browser extension that translates manga directly on websites, without downloading images first. The extension routes its requests through the local server you are already running, so the images never leave your machine. Speech bubble detection, text reading, and text erasing each use local AI models (DBNet, manga-ocr, and LaMa respectively). These run faster with an NVIDIA GPU on Windows or Apple Silicon on Mac. CPU-only mode works but is noticeably slower. The pre-packaged Windows zip bundles Python and most model weights, so there is no separate install step.