Changelog

• Google Lens integration.
• Google Cloud Vision integration.
• Individual character positioning for accurate text overlay (currently exclusive to Cloud Vision).
• Expanded PaddleOCR settings menu with additional parameters.
• Built-in Yomitan and JPDBReader extensions.
• Global hotkeys for toggling the overlay and copying extracted text.
• Dedicated global hotkeys for each OCR engine.
• Edit extracted text with Ctrl + Double Click, allowing for manual corrections.
• Enhanced overlay customization options.
• Option to automatically hide OCR results upon focus loss.
• Now you can change the installation directory.
• Added an AppImage option for Linux users.

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Getting Started With YomiNinja

Note: You can enhance your manga reading experience by using Google Lens and reducing the "size offset" of the bounding box. This option can be found under Settings > Overlay Appearance > Bounding Box. To log into jpdb.io, you can click on the "jpdb settings page" link from the JPDBReader extension settings screen.

Version 0.5 and 0.5.1 features:

• Chrome Extensions Manager.
• OCR Templates.
• Google Translate.
• Option to control which window is displayed when the text is copied (Overlay Behavior).
• Option to enable a custom mouse cursor for games that hide the cursor (Overlay Appearance).
• Options to control overlay font size and letter spacing (Overlay Appearance).
• Main window zoom controls.
• Improved overlay rendering.

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Version 0.4 and 0.4.1 changes:

• Pop-up dictionary usability improvements (automatic click-through and scroll).
• Option to show overlay without stealing focus.
• Fixed initial startup issue.
• Linux support.

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Version 0.3 and 0.3.1 changes:

• Built-in popup dictionaries.
• Extensions toolbar buttons.
• Copy text on click. (only with Click-through disabled for now).
• Automatically handles CPU incompatibilities.

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v0.3.0 changes

If you're experiencing slow OCR processing after updating to this version, find the resolution in this issue.

New features:

• Option to invert captured image colors.
• WebSocket support for texthookers. Port: 6677
• Option to alter the OCR inference runtime.

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Note: If the OCR is not returning results, there's a new "Inference Runtime" option in the "OCR Engine" settings. Set it to "ONNX CPU" and restart the OCR Engine.

First release features:

• Text extraction from the entire screen or specific window.
• Automatic text copying.

Recognition languages:

• English
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Korean