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Translate, clean and typeset a chapter with full control of every page

MangaTCT finds every block of text, reads it, translates it with your glossary and your character sheet, wipes the original off the art and sets the English back into the balloon. Then it hands you all of it: every line, every block, every bubble, down to the outline color.

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Windows 10 and 11. Version 1.1.0 (beta).

The MangaTCT workspace: a chapter typeset in English, with the seven steps across the top and the cleaning panel on the right

The comic in the pictures on this page: Pepper&Carrot by David Revoy, CC BY 4.0.

3formats, end to end 7steps, run in any order 4languages out

Drag it

A raw page in. A typeset page out.

One file, both ends of the pipeline. Pull the handle across.

A raw Japanese page
The same Japanese page, cleaned and typeset in English
A raw Japanese page
The same Japanese page, cleaned and typeset in English
A raw Japanese page
The same Japanese page, cleaned and typeset in English
Drag any handlePepper&Carrot by David Revoy, CC BY 4.0
The three stages cycling: raw, cleaned, typeset

The three stages

Find and read, clean, typeset. Each stage is a step you can run, undo and run again on one page or the whole chapter.

One balloon typeset with four different lengths of English

The fitter, working

Same balloon, four lengths of English. It changes the breaks and the size - the label on each frame is the size it chose - and never the words.

The same balloon typeset in four different fonts

One block, four faces

A font is a decision about a block, not about a chapter. Change it on one bubble and nothing else moves.

The pipeline

Seven steps, in three groups.

The bar says where the chapter is - a count on every button and a fill under it. It does not decide what you are allowed to press: run any step, in any order, on any pages you like.

  1. 1Find text
  2. 2Read text
  3. 3Translate
  4. 4Proofread optional
  5. 5Clean
  6. 6Typeset
  7. 7Export

Translation

1

Find text

Every block of writing on the page, boxed - dialogue, captions, thoughts on the art, sound effects.

2

Read text

The Japanese, Korean or Chinese out of each box, read as a close-up of every box. Or read on your own computer, for nothing.

3

Translate

Every box on the page in one go, with the synopsis, the character sheet and the glossary in front of it - so honorifics and names stay the same on page 39 as on page 1.

4

Proofread optional

A second pass, only if you want one. It reads the page as a page: pronouns with no owner, a name one letter off the sheet, a line that does not answer the one before it. It writes a report you can read, and it changes nothing without you. Skip it and everything else works exactly the same.

Image

5

Clean

The Japanese comes off. A plain white balloon is filled on your computer; everything else goes to the hosted AI cleaner, a few coins a chapter.

6

Typeset

The English goes in, fitted to the balloon. Line breaks first, then size - the words themselves are never touched.

Export

7

Export

The finished pages. Or the cleaned pages with no text. Or the original art with every box drawn on, for checking.

The seven-step bar on a finished chapter
A real chapter: six of the seven steps done on every page of it.

The screens

Home, then four tabs - and you work in one of them.

Home

Where the app opens: start a new project or open a project file, sign in, and pick up the chapters you opened before.

Home tab

Three formats, two jobs

Manga, manhwa and manhua - what changes between them.

All three are supported end to end. Manga is a different job from the other two - a tool that pretends otherwise hands you a Korean chapter numbered backwards. Manhwa and manhua are the same job in two languages. Here is what actually differs.

Manga | Japanese

The format the rest of it was built around.

JapaneseRight to left

What it does well

Reading order runs right to left, panel by panel
Boxes are ordered inside their panel first, and the cut is found by measuring the gutter - including slanted ones, which is most of an action page. Drag a row and the whole chapter renumbers.
Can be read locally by manga-ocr, free and offline
It installs with the app and it is the strongest reader there is for Japanese comic typesetting. Or use the AI reader instead - that works for all three formats.
Honorifics survive, or come off - your call
-san, -sama, -kun, -chan, -senpai. And the chapter audit catches one welded onto a name where it should not be.
Two spellings of a name never become two people
The name check folds Japanese romanization - Glow and Glou, ou and oh and oo, l and r - so a drift on page 12 is caught against page 1.
Sound effects are set as words, not as kana
However the original ink ran down the page, the English goes in as one horizontal word - the way a typesetter would draw it.
Manga in the editor
A Japanese page, every block numbered in reading order. Pepper&Carrot is drawn left to right, so this chapter is set to read that way. Japanese translation by guruguru.

Everything AFTER the words is the same for all three: cleaning, fitting, typesetting, the effects and the export do not know which format they are working on, and that is deliberate. Out comes English, Spanish, Portuguese or French.

Editorial control

The machine does the typing. You do the editing.

This is the part most tools skip. Everything the pipeline decided is a value you can see and change, on the page, without leaving the editor and without starting again.

Every line, on the page

Every line, on the page

The text list is the translation: one row per piece of source text, what it says and what it will say, and how sure the reader was. Open a row and both are fields - retype either. Change what kind of box it is, split it in two, or link it to the bubble it carries on into.

Every block, letter by letter

Every block, letter by letter

Font, size, rotation, curve, line gap, letter gap, caps. Text color, outline color, both as gradients. Shadow, outer glow, inner glow. Per block - not per page, not per chapter.

Every bubble, and how it was cleaned

Every bubble, and how it was cleaned

The page says which route cleaned each bubble - filled flat, tone copied, locally, by the AI - so you can see what it did before you trust it. Or drop in your own cleaned plate and skip the step.

The whole workspace with one block selected and the typesetting panel open
One block picked, and every control that applies to it.

What it will not do

Six rules it will not break to make your life easier.

A tool that quietly edits your translation to make it fit is not saving you work - it is hiding work you now have to find.

The whole translation goes in.

Never reworded to fit, never trimmed, never split across two boxes. The fitter changes the line breaks and the size, and that is all it is allowed to change.

No hyphens.

It will not break a word to make it fit. A dash the author typed - S-S-S-SORRY!! - is a different thing and survives exactly as written.

Your font, and only your font.

It will not quietly swap a character for one your face happens to have, and it will not hand a line to a different family. If your font is short of a glyph, the box says so.

It never overwrites good work with nothing.

If a re-run cannot typeset a bubble - a bad font, an empty mask - the typesetting already on the page stays. A blank bubble is never an answer.

A box you drew is yours.

Draw a text box and it is independent: no detection behind it, not in the translation list, not counted as text to translate. Uploading a new translation does not sweep it away.

Nothing is uploaded without a step that says so.

Finding text, typesetting and exporting run on your computer. Reading, translating, proofreading and cleaning send only what that step needs, through MangaTCT, to the service doing it.

A finished panel: every balloon set in one face, nothing borrowed
Your font, and only your font. Every glyph on this page is the face that was picked for it - nothing borrowed from another family to fill a gap. A glyph the face cannot draw is kept and flagged, never quietly swapped.
The sound effect VMMM set on the artwork of a panel
Sound effects sit on the artwork, not in a balloon: set as a word you can read, where the original ink was - the way a typesetter would draw it.

The models

Pick the AI for each step. Or none.

Reading, translating and proofreading each take their own AI company and their own model, so you can put a cheap fast one on the reading and a careful one on the words. Claude, Google AI Studio (Gemini), or OpenAI, DeepSeek and Qwen through OpenRouter. Every call goes through MangaTCT and is paid in TCT Coins, with no key to set up.

Every step's run dialog shows its price in coins before you start, for the whole chapter and for the page on screen.

Per-step model settings

What you can point them at

Eight of them, from about 12 coins to several hundred for a 23-page chapter, depending on the model. A hundred coins is a dollar, every one is priced per text box on what it really costs to run, and the calculator on the coins page tells you the number before you spend anything.

Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Cheapest

The cheapest thing that does the job. Fine for reading text off a page.

Google

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Default for reading

Cheap and quick. The default for reading text.

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Small and careful

Claude's small one. Better at holding a voice than its price suggests.

Google

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Default for translating

Fast, and it thinks before it answers. The default for translating.

Google

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Newest Flash

Google's newest Flash, at the same price as 3.7 Flash.

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

Default for proofreading

The default for proofreading. Catches what the others miss.

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Large

Anthropic's large model. Worth it on a page that matters.

Anthropic

Claude Fable 5

Most expensive

The most expensive model on the menu, for the page that has to be right.

TCT Coins

Free to try. Then you pay for what you actually run.

Make an account and verify your email, and it comes with 100 free TCT Coins - enough to read and translate a chapter on a cheap Gemini model before you decide anything. After that you top up, and only the steps that call a model cost anything.

100 free coins

Once your email is verified. No card.

Pay as you go

Coins are spent by the steps that call a model: reading, translating, proofreading, and the hosted cleaner.

Always free

Finding text, typesetting and exporting. Read text can run on your computer for nothing, and manual translation skips the AI steps.

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Compared

Against the two ways people do this now.

Doing it by hand gives you total control and costs you a day a chapter. A one-click translator gives you a chapter in a minute and no way to fix what it got wrong. This sits in the middle on purpose.

By hand in Photoshop One-click auto-translateMangaTCT (beta)
Detection, reading and translationby hand, box by boxone pass, whole chapterone pass, whole chapter
Where the English goesyou place every blockyou place every blockfitted, then you correct it
Change one bubble's fontyesyesyes
Gradients, glow, curve, rotation per blockyesyesyes
Draw, clone, heal and erase on the pageyesyesyes
Reading order enforced across the chapteryou track ityou track itnumbered, and re-numbered when you drag
Glossary and character sheet applied to every pageyou rememberyou remembercarried into every request
Runs the model you choose, or none at allno modelfixedper step, from five AI companies
Translate it entirely by handyesnoyes - a labeled file out, filled in, back
Webtoon strips cut into pagesyou cut themrarelyon upload, at the gutters
Your own cleaned pagesthey are yoursrarelydrop them in

The middle column describes the general class of one-click page translators, not any single product.

Questions

The ones worth answering.

What do I need to run it?

Windows 10 or 11. The installer brings its own Python, and the first start downloads the text models - about 300 MB, once. No graphics card needed. Reading, translating, proofreading and the hosted cleaner are paid in TCT Coins; finding text, typesetting and exporting run offline.

Does it upload my raws?

Finding text, typesetting and exporting never leave your machine. Reading, translating and proofreading send the page, or its text, through MangaTCT to the AI company you picked. Cleaning sends the parts of a page that are not plain white balloons to the hosted cleaner. Read on your computer, translate by hand and stay signed out, and nothing leaves at all.

What about long webtoon strips?

A chapter uploaded as identical tiles is re-cut into pages near 2,400px on upload, at the gutters, and your tiles are kept. It is done because the detector sees a whole page at one size, so on a 10,000px strip the text arrives too small to find. A single genuinely enormous image that was never tiled is still the weak spot - cut it up first.

Which languages can it translate into?

English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. The prompt is warned that Spanish and Portuguese run about a fifth longer than English and French about a quarter, because that is the difference between a balloon that fits and one that does not.

Can I use it without any AI?

Yes. Turn on manual translation and the three model steps go quiet. Download a labeled text file with every box numbered, fill it in, upload it back - or type straight into the page. Sign out and cleaning uses the local fill too.

Is it finished?

No. It typesets a chapter today and it is being worked on most days. The parts that have settled - finding text, reading it, translating, cleaning - are the parts that get left alone.