Seeneva Reader Android

Seeneva is a free, open source comic book reader for Android that uses a built in machine learning model to make small screens easier to read. The model detects speech balloons on each page, so a reader can zoom to a balloon and move from one to the next with a touch instead of pinching and panning. A second feature applies optical character recognition to every detected balloon, which lets users copy the text out of a comic. The reader can also pass that text to Android's built in text to speech, so it can be used as an audio comic book reader. The app opens CBZ, CBR, CB7 and CBT archives as well as PDF files, reads ComicRack metadata, and runs on Android 4.1 and later. It is aimed at people who read digital comics on phones and tablets, and at anyone who wants to extract or listen to the lettering. The recognition runs inside the app rather than through a hosted service. Seeneva is licensed under GPLv3 or later. The site states it has no ads and collects no personal data. There is no price; the developer funds the project through voluntary donations by Liberapay, Qiwi, Nano, Bitcoin and Ethereum, and says they go toward faster hardware and cloud services for training the models. Donations carry no bonuses or extra features.