ACBR – comic book reader and converter

ACBR is a cross-platform comic book reader and converter.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Compatible file formats:
  • Comic books: cbz, cbr, cb7, pdf & epub
  • Image files: jpg, png, webp & avif
  • Ebooks: pdf & epub
• Including password protected pdf, cbz (AES encryption not supported), cb7 and cbr files.
• 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, German, Russian, and Spanish, Russian.
• 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).
• 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 to cbz, cb7, pdf or epub).
    • images (jpg, png, avif or webp).
  • Create:
    • a comic book (cbz, cb7, pdf or epub) from a list of image files.
    • 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.
  • search and open audiobooks from:
    • Librivox AudioBooks.
  • search dictionary terms from:
    • Wiktionary Dictionary.

Website: github.com/binarynonsense/comic-book-reader
Support:
Developer: Álvaro García
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License

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