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Getting Started

Quickly master the core features of Transbox with a few simple steps

Welcome to Transbox

Transbox is a translation workbench for translators and localization engineers. It translates on the fly inside any application (selection, screenshot, mini window), and it also manages whole documents or a software project's locale files in one workspace — with translation memory, termbase, machine translation and an AI assistant at hand — then exports files that drop straight back into your codebase.

Download and Install

  1. Visit the download page
  2. Choose the version for your operating system (currently Windows only)
  3. Download and run the installer
  4. Complete the installation by following the setup wizard

After the first launch, two things are worth checking: the interface language and quick-translation target language under Settings → General, and the engines you plan to use under Settings → Translation engines.

Core Features at a Glance

1. Project Translation

  • Manage multilingual resource files project by project
  • Locale files: JSON / YAML / PO / Properties / ARB / Android XML / iOS Strings / stringsdict / SRT / XLSX
  • Documents: DOCX / XLSX / PPTX / HTML / Markdown / TXT / XML — plus XLIFF as bilingual files
  • TM matches, term matches, MT and an AI assistant inside the editor
  • Pre-translate, batch operations, QA checks and multi-format export

2. Quick Translation (Text)

  • Type or paste text, with automatic source language detection
  • Six MT engines (free for a limited time) + platform LLMs + custom models
  • 500 characters per request in the main window, 1,000 in the mini window
  • Identical engine + language pair + source text reuses the local cache

3. Selection Translation

  • Select text in any app and press the hotkey (default Alt+C)
  • Three presentation modes: mini window, follow-the-cursor, silent
  • In silent mode, Alt+V inserts the translation at the caret

4. Screenshot Translation

  • Capture a screen region (default Alt+Z), with automatic window snapping
  • Local OCR, then translation of the recognized text
  • OCR engine: Tesseract or Rapid OCR (local plugin)

5. Corpus Management

  • Memory: import TMX / SDLTM / Excel, export TMX / Excel
  • Termbase: import TBX / SDLTB / Excel, export TBX / Excel
  • Merge libraries, deduplicate, split on export by file or entry count
  • Corpus search runs across all memories and termbases

6. Chatbox

  • Platform LLMs and custom OpenAI-compatible models
  • Multiple sessions, continuous conversation, system prompts
  • Shares its AI core with the in-editor assistant

7. File Tools

  • PDF split (fixed page count, packed as ZIP)
  • PDF merge (reorder before merging)
  • Two-column Excel ↔ XLIFF conversion
  • Word count (repetition, TM match distribution, new words)

8. Translation History

  • Automatically records the text translation cache
  • Search by source, target, language pair or engine
  • Usage statistics, plus one-click cache clearing

Get Help

If you run into any problems while using Transbox:

  1. Visit the user QQ channel community
  2. Contact us for support

We hope you enjoy using Transbox!

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