HSK Manga: Turning Manga into Beginner-Level Chinese
Summary
The article introduces HSK Manga, a tool that converts manga dialogue into graded Chinese lines appropriate for HSK levels 1-4. It details the pipeline stages: extracting text with OCR (PaddleOCR) and filtering, simplification using prompt engineering and logit bias with Fireworks AI DeepSeek V4, and rendering new text with cover/erase and LaMa. The author shares progress and invites feedback.