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v0.102.0: Manga title artwork

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Manga title artwork, cover extraction with precise corrections, and optional nightly library processing.

Manga title artwork

  • Home and series heroes show cached transparent title logos when available, with readable captions for original-language
    artwork. Genre and cover-colour title styles provide a fallback, with the same layout on phones and computers.
  • Title logos occupy more of the Home and series heroes, with proportional sizing for small originals and
    compact layouts that keep reading controls clear on short screens.
  • Optional automatic lookup uses confirmed AniList manga identities to find Wikimedia artwork. Existing online-lookup
    opt-outs remain effective; lookups run in the background and do not delay opening a page.
  • Edit details offers logo upload, image links, refresh, styled titles and reset to automatic. Manual choices take priority,
    and artwork source information stays available with the preview.
  • Automatic discovery scans the eligible library without opening every manga, resumes after restarts, and honors
    provider-wide retry pauses. The admin progress panel distinguishes unchecked titles from completed no-match results.
  • Logo matching also accepts transparent PNG originals and verifies bounded Commons discovery against the exact manga's
    canonical identity, recovering artwork absent from the direct logo field.
  • Action, fantasy and science-fiction titles retain their distinctive typography when Comedy is a secondary genre.
  • Administrators can extract lettering from the current cover, adjust the title region and exclude credits, preview
    the transparent result on a hero, and explicitly apply or discard it. Changed covers and newer artwork choices
    invalidate old drafts. The optional model service remains isolated from the application and library files.
  • Cover selection reruns detection on overlapping title-line views and refines missed letters using the existing
    local SAM weights. Automatic selection groups neighboring lines and separated characters. Edited regions immediately
    hide the previous preview, and detected bounds remain separate from the administrator's requested selection.
  • Cover extraction can retain dark outlines and shadow strokes next to detected lettering when source-image
    contrast, text-model support and bounded component checks agree. Original colors and previously detected ink
    remain intact; ambiguous results still require visual review.
  • Title previews offer precise Restore and Erase brushes, zoom, pan, undo and reset. Corrections replay against an
    immutable cover and alpha mask, save as a private revision, and require review before Apply. Revision checks prevent
    older tabs from applying unseen corrections; manual corrections never inherit automatic quality approval.
  • Opt-in nightly cover extraction processes existing and newly added manga through a persistent queue. Manual
    requests take priority; unchanged covers are skipped and uncertain previews remain available for 14 days.
  • A separate opt-in can apply results that pass the available canonical-title and image checks. Existing manual
    artwork, styled titles and provider logos are preserved. Both options are off by default; missing identity,
    unavailable recognition, incomplete titles and other failed checks leave results for review. Empirical calibration
    remains separate from these runtime checks and is never inferred from an extraction score.

Uchiyomi Desktop (beta): downloads

Uchiyomi as a program on your own computer, for Windows and Mac. On first launch it asks how you want to
use it: on this computer (the whole app, with the library in a folder on your PC and no Docker or
server to run) or connected to your own Uchiyomi server (a window onto the server you already run).

Your computer Download
Windows (x64) Uchiyomi-Setup-0.102.0.exe
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) Uchiyomi-0.102.0-arm64.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor Uchiyomi-0.102.0-x64.dmg

Only those three are for you: the .zip, .blockmap and latest*.yml files are what the app's own updater
reads. The same installers are also here under names without a version (Uchiyomi-Setup.exe,
Uchiyomi-mac-arm64.dmg, Uchiyomi-mac-x64.dmg), which always lead to the newest release.

The app is not signed yet, so the first launch takes one extra step:

  • Windows: "Windows protected your PC" appears once. Choose More info, then Run anyway. A PC
    with Smart App Control turned on blocks unsigned apps with no way past it; use the Docker install there.
  • macOS: open the dmg and drag Uchiyomi to Applications. The first time you open it, macOS refuses;
    go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway.

Windows installs updates by itself. A Mac cannot update an unsigned app, so there a new version is a new
download; the menu-bar icon and Admin → Health say when one is out.

Step by step, with pictures -- which file, the first launch on each system, the two ways to use it, adding
sources, updates, backups, where files live and uninstalling:
the desktop guide.