QManga is a Qt-based manga and book reader built for large local collections. It combines a multithreaded viewer with bookshelf indexing, allowing a library to be catalogued and searched rather than treated as a collection of unrelated files.
Its database layer can use MySQL for larger collections or SQLite for a simpler local setup. Beyond manga archives, QManga handles several document and ebook formats, making it useful for mixed libraries containing scans, conventional ebooks, PDFs, and office documents.
Recent development has also broadened its handling of encrypted material, including protected archives and PDFs.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multithreaded viewer designed for fast navigation through large collections.
- Bookshelf indexing with database-backed collection management and search.
- Supports ZIP, RAR, PDF, and DJVU files containing original images or scanned pages.
- Handles password-protected ZIP and RAR manga archives.
- Supports password-protected PDF documents.
- Reads TXT, EPUB, and FB2 ebook and text formats.
- Opens RTF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, WPS, ODT, ODS, and ODP documents by converting them to PDF through LibreOffice.
- OCR functionality with an editor when Tesseract is available.
- Can use Japanese recognition data with Tesseract for OCR work.
- Supports MySQL for collection management and high-speed searching.
- Can use SQLite as a local database without requiring a MySQL server.
- PDF rendering support through Poppler.
- DJVU support through DjVuLibre.
- Built with Qt.
Website: github.com/kernel1024/qmanga
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Developer: kernelonline
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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