MangaBD - Bengali Manga Translator

📋 Task

Build MangaBD V11 - a production-quality Bengali manga translator as a Google Colab notebook.

See PROMPT.md for complete specifications.

📚 Contents

• PROMPT.md - Complete task specification (READ THIS FIRST)
• reference/MangaBd_V1.ipynb - User's first version (reference)
• fonts/NotoSansBengali-Regular.ttf - Bengali font
• fonts/NotoSansBengali-Bold.ttf - Bengali bold font

🎯 Goal

Quality is the #1 priority. Take whatever cells/code needed, but deliver excellence.

🔧 Tech Stack

• Detection: CTD (Comic Text Detector)
• OCR: Baidu Unlimited (primary) + Qwen 2.5 VL 3B (backup)
• Translation: Manual / Gemini / ChatGPT / NLLB
• Inpainting: LaMa Large
• Rendering: Pillow + libraqm + NotoSansBengali
• Storage: Google Drive (models persist across sessions)
• UI: HTML/CSS/JS Dashboard

📖 References

• zyddnys/manga-image-translator: https://github.com/zyddnys/manga-image-translator
• Baidu OCR: https://huggingface.co/baidu/Unlimited-OCR
• Qwen 2.5 VL: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct