Is there a comic book web viewer that supports raw images?
reddit / selfhosted

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MUOAA · 2023-10-06 14:58

Originally, I was working on a project called Kavita, but the
developer is considering deleting the original image support.
I'm looking for an alternative to this.

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simpleFr4nk · 2023-10-06 15:38

This is how I started, using Kavita to read comic books through raw
images, but after some times and the tedious tasks to add metadata, I
moved to .cbz archive with a ComicInfo.xml inside to make it way
easier.

So at the end I’m not using Kavita, for other reasons, but I think
it’s more beneficial on the long run if you look into comic metadata
and cbz archives (just a .zip file renamed to .cbz with the images
inside).

There’re many different application or docker services that can help
you manage and edit them easily, but I don’t use neither and have my
scripts for that

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MUOAA · 2023-10-06 15:41

I have a huge amount of images and also multiple scripts that check it
every time, so I have difficulty compressing and solving them every
time with cbz. I don't know if there's a script that tricks folders
into cbz, but this is kind of hard

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simpleFr4nk · 2023-10-06 15:45

Make sense that you wake to stick with that, sadly all the services I
know (Komga, Atsumeru and Mango) use compressed archive, PDFs or ePub,
so I cannot be more helpful

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MUOAA · 2023-10-06 15:53

That's why I'm sadly looking for a platform that supports raw images.
Basically, if you compress it to cbz or zip, multiple scripts can't
check what's inside, so you're forced to look for a raw image support
platform

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remghoost7 · 2023-10-06 18:20

[Yacreader](https://www.yacreader.com/) works well with raw files (if
you're talking about loose jpg/png files). I have a few comics in a
zip and it works great. It's a bit jank with .cbr/.epub files though.
They scale oddly if you open them directly (instead of with the
companion library program).

[Source code is here too](https://github.com/YACReader/yacreader) if
you're into that.

I've only used it once or twice, so I can't give a good review of it.
It was just the program that I settled on when trying to open a comic
I found online.

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MUOAA · 2023-10-06 18:25

This is quite interesting