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Comic Archive Tools — Development skill for Claude Code

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How to install Comic Archive Tools

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open diegochagas/manga-letterer and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Comic Archive Tools does

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README

comic-archive-tools

A toolkit for working with comic/manga page archives: packaging and extracting CBR/CBZ archives, converting between PDF/PSD/image formats, small image utilities, and a Claude Code skill that automates Photoshop lettering prep (text detection, cleaning, paragraph text boxes). Each piece below is independent — use whichever one you need.

Overview

Script / skill	What it does
Manga lettering pipeline (`SKILL.md` + `scripts/`)	Claude Code skill — turns manga/doujinshi page scans into layered, letter-ready PSDs: text detected and erased, a native Photoshop paragraph text box added per speech bubble.
`tools/images_to_cbr.py`	Packages a folder of images into a `.cbr` archive.
`tools/cbr_to_images.py`	Extracts `.cbr`/`.cbz`/`.zip` comic archives into image folders.
`tools/pdf_to_images.py`	Extracts PDF pages as JPG images.
`tools/psd_to_jpg.py`	Converts Photoshop `.psd`/`.psb` files to JPG.
`tools/rotate_images.py`	Rotates every image in a folder by a given angle.
`tools/stretch_pngs.py`	Stretches every PNG in a folder to exact dimensions.

Manga lettering pipeline (Claude Code skill)

Turns a folder of manga/doujinshi page scans into layered PSD files ready to hand to a letterer: the original text erased cleanly, and an editable Photoshop paragraph text box already sitting in place of each speech bubble/caption, pre-filled with placeholder text in a comic lettering font. No more hand-drawing a Type tool box over every bubble before you can start translating — open the PSD and start typing.

Output: what's in the PSD

Every page becomes a PSD with:

Layer "Original" (bottom) — the untouched scan, for reference or to restore anything the cleaning step damaged.
Layer "Cleaned" — the same page with all detected CJK text erased, and only text: stroke detections are gated by the model's own text-block boxes and text-line map, so stroke-like false pos