How We Engineered an AI Manga Translator: Solving RTL OCR, Screentone Inpainting, and Edge Pipelines

Building a production-ready manga translation pipeline means fighting vertical text, preserving fragile halftone screentones, and optimizing heavy image processing at the edge. Here is our architectural breakdown. Building a translation tool sounds simple on paper: extract text, pass it to an LLM, translate it, and render it back onto the image....