Need Ideas -- Manga Look-up Program

[Forget Me Not]

I'll be willing to help.

Oh cool. Alright. I'll try to find a role for you in the project. Send me a friends request here and I'll notify you at my nearest convenience.

This project however, at the moment, is postponed long term until I'm able to purchase another PC. I should be able to buy another in a couple of months at the latest.

I think you can find translations of many chapters in pure text, so it can be copied. People usually translate the RAW scans into text and post it somewhere, before some actual scanlaters put it into the actual manga pages.

So if you were to do it, an idea would be, simply connecting all these translations (since it would spare you a lot of time to simply find them), to every chapter. Then you search for words, and you find the chapters, the word appear in. Seems pretty simple U_U

You have the base idea. Yes, that is my idea, and in theory it should be relatively simple. The coding and scheme is the difficult part. I don't know, I haven't even started on this due to preoccupation. But thanks for the input.

This is not as simple as you are stating. It will not work unless you crop down each clip of manga image and connect them to record's keyword strings. Its because most of info clears when we see actual drawing of manga. Or other option you have to use is adding some Notes/explanation with each record. Both are lengthy procedures time consuming + structure designing. So needs a lot of efforts. adding explanations is easier but this will be question again who will agree with you because you fan boys .
A lot easier than all this you want to design will be separate each page of manga and add keywords and tags on each page about their matter. Or if you want to refine it more than you can separate each drawing box and tag it.
This will be a lot easier than programming. And for that users dont need any of installation. And because it does not need much skills you will be able to get help from others (non-professionals) too.
Or dont drop your idea. Just go for it in steps. First add tags and keywords to each page then you will be able to see what design you need for your database and after compiling database you need just copy past data in it with chapter no, page no info. Through this you will able to design master records and it will be useable. Then go for next step and make a table and fill up child records with explanation/drawing whatever you want.
Sorry for long post but I hope you will get my view

Thanks for the feedback. I think you're looking at it from a more complex view. Nothing related to images or pixels is involved. The only time consuming aspect would be aggregating the content from the chapters and cross-referencing them accordingly. thegame seems to have the basic idea.

I just need to extract the content from the manga chapters, compile them, create a program that probes the content of these chapters, and yield a result. The concept is actually pretty simplistic.

Thank you for your suggestions, but I think I already have the structure of the program premeditated. Much appreciated.

Mmmmm Great idea!

Thanks! Hopefully all goes well. Will start on it as soon as I have the chance.

 

[Forget Me Not]

Ah, so I just decided that I won't be using SQL for this project. Concluded that it would be too time/resource consuming so I decided to just go ahead and throw the manga chapter content in plaintext files and store them in a cache on your local machine. That way the program can just sift through those and parse the info you're searching for.

Should be a lot more simple (and prudent) than using a query language. Redundancy successfully simplified.

To reiterate, I'll be doing this ASAP. That just won't be anytime soon. I approximate that it won't be until mid February when I finally get around to this task.

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Current participants/contributors:

-Forget Me Not
-Naruto N Uzumaki

I probably won't need many more people than that. Again, thank you all for your time.

Sincerely, Forget Me Not.