DOCDEV.to AI·5/10/2026
How I cut speech-bubble retries from 70% to 0% with 200 lines of Pillow code
The author drastically reduced AI image generation retries for unreadable text in speech bubbles by offloading typography to a deterministic post-processing step. This involved having the AI draw empty bubbles and then using Pillow and OpenCV to add readable text, achieving a zero-retry rate for text issues.
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