Case Study: INKR achieves faster comic localization and smarter recommendations with Looker

Bridging the gap between comic fans and creators with BigQuery and Vision AI

INKR is a digital comic platform in Singapore that works with more than 100 publishers and creators to make comics more accessible through localization. As its user base grew, INKR needed a scalable way to collect and analyze data, understand reader preferences, and streamline a manual localization process. It used Looker for reporting, alongside Google Cloud tools such as BigQuery and Vision AI.

Looker helped INKR create professional weekly business reports that were directly connected to BigQuery, making reporting faster and easier for internal teams and partners. With the broader Google Cloud solution, INKR improved model training time from several hours to less than an hour, cut time to production from one week to one day, and reduced model training costs by 60%. The company also used Vision AI to automate transcription and localization, saving hours of manual work and speeding up publishing.

INKR

Vu Hoang

Head of Data and AI