LxReader vs Seeneva: smart comic reader
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
LxReader
Open source e-book reader for Android. Supported e-book formats through the use of the crengine-ng library: fb2, fb3 (incomplete), epub (non-DRM), doc, docx, odt, rtf, pdb, mobi (non-DRM), txt, html, Markdown, chm, tcr. Main features: Most complete support for FB2 - styles, tables, footnotes at the bottom of the page Extensive font rendering capabilities: use of ligatures, kerning, hinting option selection, floating punctuation, simultaneous use of several fonts, including fallback fonts Word hyphenation using hyphenation dictionaries Ability to display 2 pages at the same time Displaying and Navigating Book Contents Ability to use bookmarks Reading books directly from a ZIP archive TXT auto reformat, automatic encoding recognition Flexible styling with CSS files Background pictures, textures, or solid background Animation of turning pages - like in a paper book or simple shift Customizable actions for touch screen zones View illustrations with scrolling and zooming - by long pressing on the illustration Select text and send it either to the clipboard or to another application, etc. Reading aloud with the possibility of using accent dictionary Built-in book library with search and/or filtering Simple built-in file manager for viewing the list of files on the device
Seeneva: smart comic reader
A libre smart powered comic book reader. Features: • Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬 • Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀 • Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives. • Supports different image formats on any Android device. • View ComicRack metadata. • Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions. • Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86. • Smart functionality performs locally on the device. • Libre application under GPLv3 or later license. • No ads, no personal data collection. 💬 Speech balloons zooming Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger. 👀 OCR and TTS Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader. ❗Note: • No comic book included. • OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now. Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.
| Feature | LxReader | Seeneva: smart comic reader |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-Droid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesEbook Reader | NotesEbook Reader |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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