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azhu032/storyboard-extractor

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TLDR

Windows desktop tool that recognizes, splits, and organizes storyboard images locally, with a Tauri-based UI in Chinese, English, and Japanese.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((Storyboard-Extractor))
    Inputs
      Storyboard images
      Language selection
    Outputs
      Split panel images
      Organized folders
    Use Cases
      Manga panel extraction
      Animation storyboard prep
      Reference image splitting
    Tech Stack
      TypeScript
      Tauri
      Rust
      Windows

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Split a scanned manga page into individual panel images for a personal archive.

USE CASE 2

Prepare reference panels from your own storyboards for a video editor.

USE CASE 3

Run panel detection locally on copyrighted-sensitive material without uploading anywhere.

USE CASE 4

Use the multilingual UI as a starting point for a Tauri app that handles image processing.

Tech stack

TypeScriptTauriRust

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Ships as a Windows-only prebuilt .exe under src-tauri/target/release; the README notes the code is partly AI-generated and may contain bugs.

In plain English

Storyboard Extractor is a small desktop tool that helps a user work with storyboard images on their own computer. The README describes it as a utility for recognizing, splitting, and organizing the contents of storyboard images locally, without needing to send the images to an online service. The interface is multilingual. The README says the application supports three languages, Chinese, English, and Japanese, which can be switched from a control in the top right corner of the application window. Each section of the README itself is also written in those three languages. Installation is described in one short step. After unzipping the project, the user opens the app.exe file inside the src-tauri\target\release directory. That backslash path and the .exe extension indicate the tool is built for Windows. The TypeScript and Tauri references suggest a web-style frontend wrapped as a native Windows app. There is a legal notice that takes up a large part of the README. It tells users they may only process images they have the right to use, such as their own work or properly licensed material. It states that the author is not responsible for misuse, unauthorized modification of the software, or processing of copyrighted or illegal content. By using the tool a person is treated as having agreed to those terms. The README closes with two notes. It warns that parts of the tool were generated with AI coding assistants and may contain issues, so users should be cautious. It also says that if the tool continues to receive interest, the author plans to keep updating and improving it.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Unzip Storyboard-Extractor on Windows, find app.exe in src-tauri/target/release, and document the first-run flow.
Prompt 2
Read the Storyboard-Extractor source and tell me which image-processing library is doing the panel detection.
Prompt 3
Add a fourth language to the Storyboard-Extractor UI and wire it into the top-right language switcher.
Prompt 4
Package Storyboard-Extractor for macOS by adjusting the Tauri config and Rust target.
Prompt 5
Rewrite the panel-detection pipeline in Storyboard-Extractor to also output a JSON manifest of panel coordinates.
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