[Klaster_1]

Something similar has already been done years ago, see the infamous GTO scanlation (exmaple: https://www.reddit.comhttps://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comment...). Decent manga (and comics in general) translation requires a "redraw" step where original text is completely removed. Some titles keep text strictly in bubbles, but most have text over the artwork to a varying degree, from simple (minutes per page) to highly non-trivial (hours). An image inpainting algorithm that removes text from manga would be really impressive and save a lot of effort.

[kevingadd]

Good automated (or even partially automated) inpainting would probably be a godsend for typesetters, since they can spend a considerable amount of time on a single page if it has lots of text or detailed illustrations. I imagine the publishers that put out multiple print volumes a month would probably pay good money for it, but it might still be too small of a market to build commercial software for...

In the worst case even skilled typesetters can spend an entire day cleaning up and typesetting a particularly nasty page if they have to repaint lines and blank out dozens or hundreds of kanji (it happens)