Nice! I also hiked Takaosan during a trip to Japan, and likewise had a "can't see shit" moment. It's definitely cool to see a familiar place show up in manga.
Looks like OCR is what most people want, which is a bit interesting, since it seems like there are a few that exist already.
Is there a reason why existing stuff isn't useful? @goroyanpai mentions that KanjiTomo doesn't perform well on katakana or blurry images, which probably should be fixable...
I've got some programming experience and I'd like to use it to make something that helps with scanlation.
But I don't know what people need -- google turns up a few projects that look useful and a few people saying they just use photoshop for everything.
- I've been thinking of trying neural...