Mandown is a comic downloader and a CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, and/or PDF converter.
It also supports image post-processing to make them more readable on certain devices similarly to Kindle Comic Converter.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Download comics from supported sites:
- Supports downloading a range of chapters.
- Supports multithreaded downloading.
- Process downloaded images:
- Rotate or split double-page spreads.
- Trim borders.
- Resize images
- Convert downloaded comics to CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF.
- Convert any other CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF comic to CBZ, EPUB, MOBI, or PDF.
- A library to easily do all of this from other Python scripts.
Website: github.com/potatoeggy/mandown
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Developer: potatoeggy
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
mandown is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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