How to Import & Read

Inside any chapter, XianScan provides 3 switchable view modes located on the top toolbar:

• Webtoon Continuous Reader: Infinite vertical scrolling with black background, optimized for continuous manhwa and webtoon strips. Includes a reading width selector (Compact max-w-lg, Standard max-w-2xl, Expanded max-w-4xl) and a 1-click toggle between Translated Output and Original Raw.
• Page Grid View: Visual thumbnail grid of all pages in the chapter. Displays live pipeline status badges (Pending, Queued, Processing, Translated, Error), current pipeline step, and allows drag-and-drop page reordering.
• Side-by-Side Compare View: Synchronized two-column layout placing the raw source page on the left and the translated canvas on the right for panel-by-panel verification.

Click on any page in Grid or Compare mode to open the Page Inspector Modal:

• 3-Layer Switching: Switch instantly between Output (Translated & Typeset), Cleaned (LaMa Neural Inpainting), and Original (Raw scan).
• OCR & Region Bounding Boxes: Inspect detected speech bubble polygons, OCR confidence scores, extracted source dialogue, and target translations.
• Single-Page Re-run: Re-run the translation or inpainting pipeline on an individual page without re-processing the entire chapter.

Webtoons often suffer from arbitrary image splitting that cuts speech bubbles in half across slice boundaries.

Click Smart Re-slice in the chapter menu to:

1. Recombine vertical strip fragments into a continuous image canvas.
2. Detect non-text whitespace valleys and natural panel gutters.
3. Automatically re-slice the chapter along clean panel boundaries before running speech bubble detection and OCR.

• Folder & Image Ingestion: Drag-and-drop any folder of comic images directly onto the chapter canvas to import pages with automatic sequence numbering.
• Next / Previous Navigation: Navigate between sequential chapters using the top toolbar navigation buttons or the End of Chapter Card at the bottom of the Webtoon reader.
• Pipeline Controls: Use the toolbar menu to Translate All, Cancel Translation, or Clear Progress to re-translate with a different AI model or glossary theme.