Hi

This is just for informative purposes.

If someone were considering making scanlations with stuff that is already digital (because it is old and almost impossible to find in paperback)
and they had to pay for it first -- payment is not the issue --
... Would it even be possible to scanlate them😕
Is there some sort of anti-piracy stuff going on such as protective software?
If so, does anyone know how to deal with it?

Thank you for any information you might have.

🙂

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"Kenka Bancho Otome"

I used to use https://www.ilovepdf.com/ to turn the whole page into a PDF/images...(In the latest versions it even detects and omits ads) . And then with google translate/lens use the auto-translate .

But this year google changed it's policies and doesn't let you do it with large files -(and saves the images you translate to ban if it's ilegal stuff).

To avoid this, can just cut it up and bulk translate them .(You must also be careful with watermarks and not using your email use proxys or whatever).



You can still use this method with different translation software ,and lastly you can just use a different browser ( old versions , "lite" ,versions adapted to different operative systems ... sometimes don't have a way of blocking screenshots) and then merge them into the desired format with ilovepdf or whatever .

If you're referring to DRM, it depends on what platform the digital stuff is on. Some platforms have DRM and some are explicitly DRM-free. If they don't mention it, it probably has DRM.

Though even if there is DRM, there's lots of tools nowadays to strip DRM from something, but of course I know nothing about how to do any of that...

You'll have to be more specific to get more definite answers, though you should probably ask on scanlators' discords instead, since it's probably better not to talk about the specifics of things like this in such a public place.