GlossaEditorial translation for long-form text

Desktop translation workflow for scholars, editors, and long-form review — staged translation, chunk-aware document processing, audit, glossary, and phrase memory in one local desktop app.

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Workflow guide

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Workflow-first

Configure a pipeline, test one chunk, run a batch, then review the result without leaving the same document workspace.

Editorial control

Keep provider choice, prompts, glossary entries, audit findings, and notes visible while you iterate on difficult passages.

Long-document support

Import plain text, Markdown, DOCX, or PDF, chunk the text, and process it progressively instead of pasting the whole work into a chat box.

Read this first

Download the app to install the right release for Windows, macOS, or Linux
Getting started for install, development, and local build commands
Document pipeline for the end-to-end workflow
LLMs and pipelines for how models behave and why Glossa splits work into stages
Projects and workspace for state, saved work, and shared resources
Glossary and phrase memory for terminology control
Audit and review for judge output, iteration, and review loops
Troubleshooting for common setup and provider failures

What Glossa covers

Standard mode for a single translation pass plus audit
Editorial mode for translation, refinement, formatting, and review
DeepL Hybrid mode for a DeepL first pass and LLM refinement
Chunk-based document processing with test and production runs
Glossary enforcement and reusable phrase memory
Typed annotations anchored to translated text
Cloud, local, and custom provider support through Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, DeepL, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints

Public site only. Internal architecture notes and the UI design system stay under docs-dev/.