Simple Manga Viewer

Features

• Open manga image folders or PDF manga files
• Switch paging direction from LTR and RTL
• Built-in image post-processing algorithms (image smoothing, Anime4K upscale, etc.)
• Touch screen long press and tap to flip support

Tip

A much smaller LITE version without numpy&opencv upscale stuff is available. See below.

Control

Page flipping: Click/touch the left/right half of the screen, mouse wheel, or keyboard arrow keys.

Show menu: Click/touch and hold anywhere on the screen for 2 seconds.

(Does not support touch swipe gestures; does not support saving image post-processing preferences)

How to use

Tested on Windows11 21H2 and Debian 12 (GNOME Wayland), both touchscreen and keyboard.

Use precomplied binary

Click to download :D

Windows:

• Full version (313MB) - Download
• LITE version (30MB) - Download

Debian/Ubuntu: WIP...

Run from source

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Python 3.10.14 is recommended. X86_64 CPU is required.

Remember to manually remove numpy, opencv-python and pyanime4K from requirements.txt if you only need to run/compile a LITE version.

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
cd .\src
python -m SimpleMangaViewer.py

and for the LITE version:

python -m SimpleMangaViewerLITE.py

Compile your own

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Step 1:

python -m pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install nuitka
cd .\src
nuitka --standalone --show-progress --disable-console --include-package=pyanime4k --plugin-enable=pyside6 --windows-icon-from-ico="path_to_icon-512.ico" --output-dir=build_output SimpleMangaViewer.py

and for the LITE version:

nuitka --standalone --show-progress --disable-console --onefile --plugin-enable=pyside6 --windows-icon-from-ico="path_to_icon-512.ico" --output-dir=build_output SimpleMangaViewerLITE.py

Check pyanime4K repo for the installation script on linux.

Step 2: Copy the pyanime4K folder from Lib\site-packages into SimpleMangaViewer.dist folder if not LITE version.

Step 3: Copy icon-512.png into the same folder as well. (optional)

Step 4: Run the .exe file in folder SimpleMangaViewer.dist.