Batch Processing

Open batch processing

Select the ✨ action in the editor. The left side selects images; the right side selects steps and models.

The current chapter is selected by default. Select more images, chapters, or volumes when needed.

The four steps

Each step has an enable switch, a model selection, and a processing scope:

1. Detect Text Block finds text regions.
2. Extract Text reads source text inside existing boxes.
3. Extract Image Summary creates an image description.
4. Translate generates translated text.

A step is disabled when its prerequisites are unavailable. Translate needs source text, either already present or produced by an earlier step in the same plan.

Scope choices

The exact labels differ by step, but the meaning is the same:

• All re-runs the step on existing results.
• Missing only processes only images, boxes, or translations without a result.

“All” can replace existing results, including manually edited source text or translations. Prefer missing-only processing unless you intentionally want to regenerate results.

Overlapping detections

When re-running detection on all images, you can exclude boxes that overlap existing boxes. This helps fill gaps without adding obvious duplicates, but you should still review the result.

Translate context

When the translate context switch is on, two kinds of context are sent to the model. When it is off, only the source text of the current page is sent.

1. The summary of the current image, if it has already been extracted or an earlier step in this plan will extract it.
2. The source text and image summaries of the pages before and after, if they have already been extracted, or an earlier step in this plan will extract them and those pages are part of the current selection.

The number of context pages before and after the current page and the cross-chapter context switch in comic settings also affect the context. When the page count is 0, only the summary of the current image is used.

Before starting

The Start button is available only when:

• at least one image is selected;
• at least one step is enabled;
• every enabled step has an available model;
• the step’s prerequisites already exist, or will be produced by an earlier step.

Tasks appear in the global task overlay. Do not move or delete source files while processing is active.

Failure and recovery

Expand the task overlay to inspect failed tasks and their full error messages. Failed tasks can be retried, and are retried automatically 3 times by default. You can change this in the corresponding service configuration.

Use Force Retry for a running or queued task that is actually stuck. Batch tasks are inspected from the batch detail view.