ACBR - Comic Book Reader

A comic book reader and converter for cbz, cbr, cb7, epub and pdf files.

English | Español | Русский | Deutsch

Contents:

• Features
• Controls
• Downloads
• Contributions
• Related Projects
• License

Features:

• Windows & GNU/Linux versions.

• Compatible file formats:

  • Comic books:
    • .cbz
    • .cbr
    • .cb7
    • .pdf
    • .epub
  • Image files:
    • .jpg
    • .png
    • .webp
    • .avif
  • Ebooks:
    • .pdf
    • .epub

  Including password protected pdf, cbz (AES encryption not supported), cb7 and cbr files.

• Windowed (simple UI) and full-screen (no UI) modes.

• 'Fit to width', 'fit to height' and a customizable 'scale to height' page views.

• Page rotation.

• UI available in:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Russian
  • German

• Automatically restores the previous session's last opened book and page, and remembers the last books' page positions.

• Portable mode (by creating a file named portable.txt in the same folder as the executable).

• Integrated audio player:

  • supports .mp3, .ogg, .wav, .m3u and .m3u8 files.
  • can export playlists to .m3u files.

• Tools:

  • Convert/Resize:
    • comic books (cbr, cbz, cb7, pdf or epub to cbz, cb7, pdf or epub).
    • images (jpg, png, avif or webp).
  • Create:
    • a comic book (cbz, cb7, pdf or epub) from a list of image files.
    • a QR code image from text.
  • Extract:
    • comic book pages (to jpg, png, avif or webp).
    • text (OCR) from a comic book page or image file.
    • a QR code's text from a comic book page or image file.
    • a color palette from a comic book page or image file.
      • can be exported to a .gpl or .aco palette file.
  • Other:
    • search and open books/comics from:
      • Digital Comics Museum.
      • Internet Archive Books.
      • Project Gutenberg.
      • xkcd Webcomics.
    • search and open audiobooks from:
      • Librivox AudioBooks.
    • search dictionary terms from:
      • Wiktionary Dictionary.

Controls:

• Toolbar :
  • buttons: 'open file', 'previous page', 'next page', 'fit to width', 'fit to height', 'rotate counterclockwise', 'rotate clockwise' and 'toggle fullscreen'.
  • slider: use it to quickly go to any page in the book.
• Keys:
  • 'right arrow' or 'page down' to go the next page.
  • 'left arrow' or 'page up' to go to the previous one.
  • 'up arrow' to scroll the page up, 'down arrow' to scroll the page down.
  • 'wasd' to scroll the page vertically and horizontally.
  • 'f11' to toggle full-screen mode.
  • 'ctrl+O' to choose a file to open.
  • 'ctrl++' and 'ctrl+-' to zoom in or zoom out the view. 'ctrl+0' to reset it.
• Mouse:
  • 'scroll wheel' scrolls the page up and down.
  • 'left-click' opens the next page if the right side of the view area is clicked and the previous page if the left side is clicked.
  • 'right-click' opens a context menu with some basic navigation options.
  • 'ctrl+scroll wheel' to zoom in or zoom out the view.

Downloads:

• Windows
• Windows (Self-Extracting)
• Linux
• Linux (AppImage)

Contributions:

• Russian localization by vanja-san
• German localization by Timo Heidutzek (trzyglow)

There's info about how to contribute to the project in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

Related Projects:

• ACBT - Comic Book Tools
  • Stand-alone, command-line version of some of the tools available in ACBR.

License:

ACBR's code is released under the BSD 2-Clause license. To check the licenses of the node modules and other libraries used in the project go to the licenses folder.