Scanlation Thread

Fuck dynasty scan

I have a feeling getting involved with the yuri community is a failed cause either way. They're by far the most unhinged fandom.

Man, I just found a script that works on some of the sites I get raws from, and now I just saw some idiots speading it around everywhere.
I guess it's going to get closed soon and not work shortly at this rate.

“No u”, creative.
But tell me, do you believe any of those things anon?

I'm still waiting for a viable dex alternative.

Honestly I'm probably just going to use catbox and cubari gist like a lot of groups are currently using.

Anyone know how to rip from Cycomi? Hakuneko doesn’t seem to work properly, I can’t log-in. It wouldn’t be that hard to screenshot everything, but it’s pretty tedious and I feel wouldn’t be best quality.

Maybe a script works? At least my experience is that they’re more likely to be successfull when you need to log in.

That alex eliot site doesn't seem to work either.
Honestly I've never gotten it to work with anything.

Can you believe that 3 days from now it's going to be a full years since the original thread and the motherfucker is still dying on "it's 16 hours" hill.

I wish catbox let you make folders for individual chapters, my "files" page is a mess

scanlation school script works everywhere from my experience. The problem is that the pages are out of order and you need to rename them manually.

The problem is that the pages are out of order and you need to rename them manually.

I've used other scripts with the same issue, honestly I think it might be the upload or something that's messed up from the web site or something.

I haven't made it myself, but those gists files seems to put them together somewhat nicely.
But yeah, it'd be way more easier if we could upload similarly as imgur.

I’m not sure which one you’re referring to. If I just have to fix page ordering though, that’s not a problem.

The first pinned script in the saving-raws channel.

thanks mang

I've used other scripts with the same issue, honestly I think it might be the upload or something that's messed up from the web site or something.

Never mind, I checked the discord and it's the same script.

I thought the thread was usually on thursdays, but now it's fridays for some reason.

planning to stop scanning manga

buy another manga bulk

Well, more work for the next months

Finally used IOPaint. And man, I should have used it way earlier.

Finally used IOPaint. And man, I should have used it way earlier.

It's genius, it makes thing way, way simpler.
It just should've been easier to install. You can buy it of course and get the windows one-click-installer, but trying to install it through the terminal can be one heck of a job.
In the end I figured out that I had to use miniconda, make an own environment, and install it with python 3.12. Then it finally worked. And not install pytorch and torchvision in advance like the install guide suggests, the downloaders gets the packs automatically that it wants.

Alright well I thought I knew what you meant, but I have no idea how I would get it to work if I grabbed the right thing at all.

It's not hard to use, you get a button on the lower left corner where you can choose to down the raws. You have to go through the images first in the reader for them to appear. Then you select the images you want or just click all and download them as a zip. Some times you need to got settings and merge images together as they're ripped as clipped images.
In general it works better with firefox and violentmonkey according to the developer. I haven't really tried anything else.
I really hope it doesn't get too popular and the hole gets closed, because it's the only script I know that works at certain sites.

Well, I'm a techlet. So I use the online version.

Oh jeez, the arrow was partially cut off and on the bottom, I didn't see it at all. Thanks very much.

I can make an easy guide. This is for windows, but should probably be relatively similar for other OS.
First you need to install miniconda. That's easy enough.
anaconda.com/docs/getting-started/miniconda/main
Don't download anaconda, just use miniconda, anaconda is just bloatware. You can skip the registration.
After installing miniconda, run it. You'll enter an own version of the terminal with miniconda. Then use this command

conda create -n iopaint python=3.12 -y

Then you've created an own environment for iopaint that won't interfere with your other python programs with python 3.12. Then run

conda activate iopaint

To activate the environment. You need to do this when using the program.
You might need to activate paths for python for scripts, I'm not entirely certain if it's necessary when you use mini. But for windows it's going to start menu - settings - system - about - advanced system settings - environment variables - path (edit) - (new) C:Users(User name)AppDataLocalProgramsPythonPython312Scripts
Of course add your own username instead of (User name).
Then install iopaint with

pip3 install iopaint

Then to use it, write

conda activate iopaint

to activate iopaint environment, then
iopaint start --model=lama --device=cpu --port=8080
to run iopaint (might want to change model and device after what you want to do, pytorch and torchvision should be automatically installed so you might want to switch to gpu), and then open

localhost:8080/

in your browser like chrome or firefox.

You can use

conda env list

to list your conda environments if you forget their names, and you can use

conda env remove --name <environment-name>

Where <environment-name> in this case would've been iopaint if you wanted to remove it, like if you'd want to reinstall it or something.
You can also deactivate your current environment with

conda deactivate

if you have something else you want to work with.

Can I just use the stock settings or do i need to do anything for scan redraw?

There's an own manga module, but in my experience the lama one works just as well.

iopaint.com/models/erase/manga
I think to use it with gpu you'd have to use

iopaint start --model=manga --device=gpu --port=8080

I've not used it myself though, I can try it out.

My bad, it's

iopaint start --model=manga --device=cpu --port=8080

Gpu doesn't seem to work with the manga module. And to use it it's --device=cuda and not gpu.

Honestly doesn't look particularly great with the manga module, I'll see how lama does.

Yeah, lama is significantly better. Don't use the manga module.

Original image for comparison.
(Please snipe the manga, it's Moteharune, Ashiya-kun. I don't want to scanlate anymore ;_;)

Honestly a lot of these AI tools have made scanlation so much easier, especially for solo scanlators like me.
Now I start with upscaling raws if I need to with Upscayl, then redraw with iopaint, the clean with panel cleaner, and then ocr with panel cleaner and translate with chatgpt. Only place I don’t use AI is typesetting, and if I could I would. I guess I could use typertools but I haven’t gotten them to work on my pirated photoshop version cc15. And honestly it doesn’t seem to save you an awful lot of time.

I just start up my scanlation conveyor belt machine and shit out low quality product en masse with next to none of my personal input

The absolute state of hobbyists in 2025.