binarynonsense / comic-book-reader

ACBR - A comic book reader and converter for CBZ, CBR, CB7, EPUB and PDF files (Windows & Linux)

ACBR - Comic Book Reader

A comic book reader and converter for CBZ, CBR, CB7, EPUB and PDF files.

English | Español | Русский | Deutsch | العربية

Contents:

• Features
• Downloads
• Contributions
• License
• Other

Features:

• Windows & Linux versions
• Compatible file formats^[1]:
  • Comic books:
    • CBZ, CBR, CB7, PDF and EPUB^[2]
  • Image files:
    • JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF
  • Ebooks:
    • PDF and EPUB^[3]
• Windowed (simple UI) and full-screen (no UI) modes
• 'Fit to width', 'fit to height' and a customizable 'scale to height' page views
• Page rotation
• UI available in:
  • English, Spanish, Russian, German and Arabic
• Automatically restores the previous session's last opened book and page, and remembers the last books' page positions.
• Portable mode (by creating a file named portable.txt in the same folder as the executable)
• Metadata editor:
  • View the metadata in PDF and EPUB files or stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside CBR, CBZ and CB7 comic books.
  • Create and/or modify the metadata in PDF and EPUB files or stored in ComicInfo.xml files inside unencrypted CBR^[4], CBZ and CB7 comic books.
  • Search for and import comic book metadata from Comic Vine (a Comic Vine API key is required).
• Integrated audio player:
  • Supports MP3, Ogg, WAV, M3U and M3U8 files.
  • Can export playlists to M3U files.
• Tools:
  • Convert/Resize:
    • Comic books (CBR, CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB^[2] to CBR^[4], CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB)
    • Images (JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP)
  • Create:
    • A comic book (CBR^[4], CBZ, CB7, PDF or EPUB) from a list of image files and/or comic books
    • A QR code image from text
  • Extract:
    • Comic book pages (to JPG, PNG, AVIF or WebP)
    • Text (OCR) from a comic book page or image file
    • A QR code's text from a comic book page or image file
    • A color palette from a comic book page or image file
      • Can be exported to a GPL or ACO palette file.
  • Other:
    • Search and open books/comics from:
      • Digital Comics Museum
      • Internet Archive Books
      • Project Gutenberg
      • xkcd Webcomics
      • Comic Book Plus
    • Search and open audiobooks from:
      • Librivox AudioBooks
    • Search dictionary terms from:
      • Wiktionary Dictionary
    • Search and open radio station streams from:
      • radio-browser

Notes:

[1]: Including password protected PDF, CBZ (AES encryption not supported), CB7 and CBR files.

[2]: Images only.

[3]: Reading EPUB Ebooks is an experimental / extra feature outside the main scope of the project. It may not work for all files and could be removed in future versions if necessary.

[4]: Creating and modifying CBR files are disabled by default. They can be enabled in the preferences but require a third-party command-line tool (rar from WinRAR) to be installed in the system.

Downloads:

Stable version:

• Windows
• Windows (Self-Extracting)
• Linux
• Linux (AppImage)

All versions (stable and beta):

• Releases list

Contributions:

• Russian localization by vanja-san
• German localization by Timo Heidutzek (trzyglow)
• Arabic localization by Ahmed (ahmed-0011)

There's info about how to contribute to the project in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License:

ACBR's code is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. To check the licenses of the node modules and other libraries used in the project go to the licenses folder.

Other:

Screenshots, more details about the controls and other extra information can be found on the project's Wiki.