[Bug]: Errors in api mode about manga-image-translator

[JustFrederik]

Read v2 docs for api mode
https://github.com/zyddnys/manga-image-translator?tab=readme-ov-file#api-documentation

[ryuzhaki]

Am I correct in understanding that v1 is for web mode?

Could you still help how to get when using v2 the final generation result? For v1 it was stored in results/{task_id}.
I do a query on /inpaint_translate, it returns me an array with the data of the individual parts, but without the final image and the results folder are empty

[JustFrederik]

The api mode does not cache anything. You sent a post request to one of the endpoints and get a json response back. I added it originally for a offline reading app(wip not usable yet) and the ichogo reader(chrome extension). The point of it is that you get an overlay for the file in format of a json.

[JustFrederik]

You cloud add an extra route if you want the image:
@routes.post("/rendered")
async def rendered_api(req):
nonlocal run_until_state
run_until_state = 'rendering'
return await self.err_handling(self.run_translate, req, self.render_response)

this would require a method to generate a response.
def render_response(self, ctx: Context, return_image: bool):
stream = BytesIO()
#todo add image bytes to stream

return web.Response(body=stream.getvalue(), content_type='image/jpeg')

[JustFrederik]

To get the image you probably need something like this:
retval, buffer = cv2.imencode('.' + overlay_ext, np.array(ctx.img_rendered))

[JustFrederik]

The v2 api is only useful if you have your own renderer. I personally dislike inpainting directly into the image because the text might get pixelated due to low res images or the texts are overlapping with each other.

[ryuzhaki]

I agree with your last comment. I was only interested in this feature because of the ability to clear the image from the text, I didn't want to run LaMa separately.

Thank you very much for your help.

[JustFrederik]

colorize_translate Contains the colorized image without the text & inpaint_translate contains the overlays.
The image is encoded to base64