HSK Manga is a free tool built by a high school student that uses OCR and text simplification to rewrite manga dialogue into beginner-level Chinese (HSK levels 1-4). The project addresses the challenge of scalable graded readers for Chinese learners by leveraging existing manga content, using PaddleOCR to extract text before rewriting it to match target vocabulary levels.
Background
HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) is China's official Chinese language proficiency test, with levels 1-9. Graded readers have long been a standard tool for language learners, but creating them manually does not scale to popular formats like manga.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Aug 31, 2026 at 01:52 AM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10