Manga Mine — desktop tools
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These turn your own manga into chapters the Manga Mine website can read.
You only need them if you want to prepare your own material; the website
itself needs nothing installed.

WINDOWS
  1. Install Python from python.org.
     On the FIRST screen of the installer, tick "Add python.exe to PATH".
     It is off by default and nothing works without it.
  2. Unzip this folder somewhere sensible (not inside the zip viewer).
  3. Double-click  prepare.bat

MAC
  1. Open Terminal and run:  xcode-select --install
     (or install Python from python.org)
  2. Unzip this folder.
  3. Right-click  prepare.command  -> Open -> Open
     macOS blocks double-clicked scripts the first time only.

LINUX
  1. sudo apt install python3 python3-venv python3-pip
  2. Unzip, then:  chmod +x prepare.command && ./prepare.command
     Or simply:    python3 launch.py prepare_gui.py

The first run downloads the Japanese reading models — a couple of gigabytes,
once. After that it starts in seconds.

When it finishes you get .mmz files. Add those to the website with the
"Add chapters" button. Nothing is uploaded at any point; the website reads
them on your own device.

Full instructions are in README.md and in the Guide on the website.
