BYOAIK — Bring Your Own AI Key: a directory of AI tools that run on your own API key.

manga-image-translator

One-click OCR and translation of text baked into manga, comics, and images, with your own LLM/MT provider keys.

Category:: Productivity Tools
Pricing:: Open Source
Open source:: Yes (GPL-3.0)
Self-hostable:: Yes
Local-first:: Yes
Platforms:: Self-hosted, Web, CLI, Library/SDK, Docker
AI providers (bring your own key):: OpenAI, Google Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Together AI, Ollama, Custom / OpenAI-compatible
API key storage:: Configured by environment variable
Key risk level:: LOW
Trust score:: 88/100

A self-hostable Python tool that detects text in manga/comic/images via OCR, removes it through inpainting, machine-translates it, and re-renders the translated text back into the image. It ships a web server (FastAPI backend + Vue front), a CLI, and Docker/docker-compose images, plus optional GPU acceleration. Translation can route through many backends: LLM providers configured with the end user's own API keys (OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Together AI, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint including local Ollama), conventional MT services (DeepL, Baidu, Youdao, Caiyun, Papago), the Sakura LLM, and fully offline models (NLLB, Sugoi, M2M100). Keys are supplied via a .env file or Docker environment variables (OPENAI_API_KEY, DEEPSEEK_API_KEY, GROQ_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, TOGETHER_API_KEY, CUSTOM_OPENAI_API_BASE/CUSTOM_OPENAI_API_KEY, etc.), confirmed directly in manga_translator/translators/keys.py and examples/Example.env. Note: the candidate's claimed license (MIT) is incorrect — the repo is GPL-3.0 — and star count is ~10k, not 6k.

How your API key is handled

Your API key is supplied via an environment variable or local config file. Requests are sent directly to the AI provider. Because it can be self-hosted, your key never has to touch a third-party backend.

Setup

Install the tool, set your provider API key as an environment variable (or in its config file), and pick a model.