Preparing the translation: original, chapters and settings

The translation goes chapter by chapter, so before you start, check two things: how the book was split into chapters and how the translation itself is set up — the mode, the models, the block size. It takes a few minutes, and fixing things later takes longer: a table of contents translated as a chapter would have to be removed from the finished book. Your book is already loaded — from here, this article takes you up to the start of the translation.

Original and chapters

1. Open “Original and structure”. The “Structure” tab lists the chapters with their character counts. The book is split into chapters by fixed rules, without AI, so check everything here with your own eyes.
2. If the book is a scan or photos of pages, first click Recognise the pages: the chapters appear after recognition. On the “Pages” tab, the page image is on the left and the recognized text on the right.
3. For each chapter, choose what to do with it: “Translate”, “Do not translate” for the table of contents and the imprint, “Bibliography” for the reading list, “Notes” for the notes. What is not translated goes into the finished book as in the original; notes are translated separately from the text.
4. You can edit a chapter title right in the list. The Merge with next button joins two chapters.
5. To split a chapter, open the “Chapters” tab, select the chapter, click ✂ next to the paragraph that will start the new chapter, then click Split. Once the trial chapter is translated, chapters can be renamed and marked, but not merged or split — so it’s best to finish the split now.

Mode, models and block size

1. Open “Translation settings”. Here you see how the translation of this book is set up: the direction, the automation mode, the models and the block size.
2. The “T1 · Step by step” mode stops at the glossary, the passport and the trial chapter and waits for you; “T2 · Full automation” goes through the whole path on its own. You can change the mode later too — with the mode button on the right of the “Translation path” bar.
3. In the “AI models” block, each job has its own model: “Reading and glossary”, “Passport, guide and samples”, “Translation”, “Polish (critic)”, “Assistant”. Your choice is saved at once; an empty field means the default model. By default, the critic comes from a different model family than the translator, so it notices what the translator misses.
4. “Characters per block” is how much text goes to the model in one call: from 2,000 to 12,000, 5,000 by default. Paragraphs are not split; a new size applies to blocks not yet translated.
5. When everything is ready, click Start. The machine reads the book and builds a glossary of names and special terms; each AI call is a line in the log: what was done, by which model and how long it took. Next comes the “Glossary” section.