Many files at once — the work queue

One file is a job. A folder of them is a morning. The work queue on My work takes any number of pictures, PDFs, documents and pasted texts, lines them up as rows, and translates them in order on your device while you watch each one report its own progress.

Adding work

On My work, type or paste into the box, or drop files on it — as many as you like. Add text turns what you typed into a row; Add files opens the picker. Pictures, PDFs and the twelve document kinds are accepted, and the hint under the box says the one thing that matters: everything stays on this device.

Dropping two or more files on the home box, on Translate, on Documents or on PDF takes you to My work with them queued. Dropping one file keeps the old behaviour and opens that tool directly.

Reading the queue

The headline over the rows says what is happening in one line: "2 of 5 ready · working on invoice.docx", with "· 1 stopped" or "· 1 failed" when there is anything to say, and "· 3 waiting" while nothing is running. Its buttons act on the whole queue: Stop ends the current row and pauses the rest, Continue resumes, Clear ready removes the finished rows once you have what you need.

Each row shows its position, a kind chip (Text, Picture, Document, PDF), its title, the languages and — for files — the size ("Detected → Spanish · 35 KB"), and a note in its own words: "Waiting its turn.", the live status line while it runs, "Stopped · 2 of 4 parts kept.", or when done "Ready · 4 parts · open it to review or edit, or download the translated file." (a PDF says pages, and offers the review).

Row actions, by state

• Waiting: move it up or down with the arrows, or Remove it.
• Running: Stop. Finished parts are kept.
• Stopped: Continue resumes the row — a PDF from the page it reached, other kinds from their first part — or Remove.
• Failed: Retry, or Remove. The note names the cause and one fix.
• Ready: a text row shows its translation right there; Open takes pictures and documents to the Desk and a PDF to the PDF viewer; Download saves the translation for text and documents; Remove clears the row.

Fix one thing in every row

When the same term came out wrong in twenty files, you do not want to open twenty files. As soon as one row is ready, a bar titled Find and replace across ready rows appears above the rows. Type into Find in the translations… and Replace with…; Whole word and Match case narrow the search, and matching is literal, not a pattern. The What will change list updates as you type: each match shown as before and after, with the row's title (and the page, for a PDF). The button reads Replace all until there are matches, then Replace N in M rows; with no match the bar says "Not found in any ready row."

It searches the translations, not the source, and only the rows that are ready — waiting, running, stopped or failed rows are not touched. A replacement is applied with the Desk's own edit rules: the sentence is marked as your correction, and your translation memory learns it so the same sentence comes back corrected next time. In a PDF, blocks you already edited by hand are skipped, so a bulk change never undoes a considered edit. Afterwards the bar reports exactly what it did: "Replaced 12 occurrences in 4 rows · 3 sentences remembered for next time."

One PDF, or everything at once

Once a row is ready, a panel titled Pages you own sits above the rows (click its heading to open it). It lists every page of every ready PDF ("report.pdf · page 2 of 2") and every ready picture as one page, in row order; text and document rows have no pages here and are picked up by the download instead. Move a page with the arrows, take it out with Drop, and Restore dropped pages brings them back.

Merge into one PDF (N pages) writes a single PDF in the order shown. A PDF page is composed exactly as the PDF viewer's own export: the translated page as an image with an invisible, selectable text layer. A picture is its scan with the translation painted over the recognised text boxes; when the recogniser gave no positions — a picture translated before this feature, or read by the phone's own recogniser — the translation is printed in a panel beneath the picture rather than painted over a guess. A page whose translation is missing is written as the original.

Download everything (.zip, N files) gives every ready row in its own format — text as .txt, documents as the translated file, PDFs and pictures as PDFs — named like "report.es.pdf". Both actions narrate their progress ("Composing report.pdf page 2… 3 of 5"), have a Stop, and end in a sentence that says what was made. Everything is composed on the device; nothing is uploaded.

What runs where

Rows run one at a time, in order, with the same engine and checks as every other tool; the language pack must be installed, as always. The queue and its results live in your browser's storage on this device — nothing is uploaded, and the queue is not synced between devices. Close the tab and the queue pauses; open My work again and it carries on from the first unfinished row.

Can I mix kinds in one queue?

Yes. A picture, a PDF, a Word file and a pasted paragraph can sit in the same queue; each is translated the way its own tool would.

Does one failed row stop the rest?

No. A failed row is marked with its cause and a Retry; the queue moves on to the next row.

Is there a limit?

No fixed number. Each row is translated in turn, so a long queue simply takes longer, and the headline always says how many are left.