Model reference · open weights
manga-ocr is an open-weight language model from kha-white, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Manga OCR Optical character recognition for Japanese text, with the main focus being Japanese manga. It uses Vision Encoder Decoder framework. Manga OCR can be used as a general purpose printed Japanese OCR, but its main goal was to provide a high quality text recognition, robust against various scenarios specific to manga: - both vertical and horizontal text - text with furigana - text overlaid on images - wide variety of fonts and font styles - low quality images Code is available here.
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | kha-white |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Variants | 1 |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Released | 2022-03-02 |
| Popularity | 788k downloads / month |
| Likes | 179 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| manga-ocr-base | — | BF16 | — | — | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys manga-ocr for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (manga-ocr below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"manga-ocr","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
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Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗