MuPDF mini vs Seeneva: smart comic reader
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
MuPDF mini
MuPDF Mini Viewer is a minimalist Android app that uses the MuPDF library to view PDF, XPS, CBZ, unprotected EPUB, and FB2 documents. This is a minimalist version of the MuPDF app, which focuses on reading only. It does not support editing annotations or filling out forms. The app will start with a file picker showing the contents of the external storage directory. Only files that it can open will be listed. Each document you open will start its own activity, so you can view many documents at once. Use the Overview system button to switch between the file picker and any open documents and other activities you have running. Tapping on the left and right side of the screen will flip to the previous and next pages. Tapping in the middle will bring up or hide the tool bars. A long tap will toggle highlighting of links. When the links are highlighted they are also active and tappable. You can pinch to zoom in. When zoomed in, tapping will scroll to advance the next screenful of content. In the toolbar there is a button to show the table of contents, if the document has one. In EPUB and FB2 documents, there is also a menu item to pick the font size. The scrubber at the bottom allows you to quickly jump to a given page in the document.
Seeneva: smart comic reader
A libre smart powered comic book reader. Features: • Smart speech balloons zooming. 💬 • Speech balloons OCR and TTS. 👀 • Supports CBZ (.zip), limited CBR (.rar), CB7 (.7z), CBT (.tar) and PDF comic book archives. • Supports different image formats on any Android device. • View ComicRack metadata. • Supports Left-to-Right (LTR) and Right-to-Left (RTL) read directions. • Supports Android 4.1+ and all available Android ABIs arm64-v8a, armeabi-v7a, x86_64 and x86. • Smart functionality performs locally on the device. • Libre application under GPLv3 or later license. • No ads, no personal data collection. 💬 Speech balloons zooming Read digital comic books on mobile devices can be difficult especially if they have small screen. Seeneva to the rescue! Built-in Machine Learning model trained to detect speech balloons on pages allows you easily zooming and navigate through them with a touch of a finger. 👀 OCR and TTS Have you ever wanted to copy text from speech balloons? Seeneva make it possible to use Optical Character Recognition on all founded speech balloons to extract text from them. And the built-in Android Text-To-Speech allows you to use Seeneva like audio comic book reader. ❗Note: • No comic book included. • OCR and TTS features are only available for English language right now. Please read app repository https://github.com/Seeneva/seeneva-reader-android for more information about the app and known issues.
| Feature | MuPDF mini | Seeneva: smart comic reader |
|---|---|---|
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesEbook Reader | NotesEbook Reader |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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