Calvin and Hobbes json

Sources

Comic text sourced from Calvin and Hobbes quotations by S Anand

See also:

• Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine
• Calvin And Hobbes Complete Digital Collection v1.2

Related projects and Links

• GoComics API wrapper - irahorecka/comics
• Kumiko, the Comics Cutter - njean42/kumiko
• Commic Book Panel Segmentation
• Finding Your Favorite Calvin and Hobbes Comics
• Calvin & Hobbes VLRC Project

Recration:

Collect quotes

curl 'https://www.s-anand.net/comic.calvin.jsz' --compressed --output quotes.tsv

Collect images

cut -f1 quotes.tsv | grep -v id | xargs -I {} date --date={} +'%Y-%m-%d' | xargs -P10 -I {} ./dl.py {} | tee aria2c.list

Panel detection

kumiko -i comic.jpg --min-panel-size-ratio=.15

Ideas

• Image boundry detection to split the comics into separate panels
• Character identification to enumerate characters per panel
• OCR to split text into per-panel text
• Transform data into fine-tuning style json