> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://koharu.rs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Koharu documentation

> Everything you need to translate, edit, and export manga with Koharu.

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    <h1 className="text-3xl font-semibold sm:text-4xl">Koharu documentation</h1>

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    <p className="mx-auto max-w-2xl text-lg leading-relaxed">An editable manga translation workflow, from your first page to the final export.</p>
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-center text-2xl font-semibold">Get started</h2>

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      <Card title="Install Koharu" icon="download" href="/en/installation">
        Download a release for Windows, macOS, or Linux.
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      <Card title="Your first translation" icon="rocket" href="/en/quickstart">
        Translate one page, review it, and export the result.
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      <Card title="Hardware and runtimes" icon="microchip" href="/en/hardware">
        Check device support and how models are downloaded.
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-center text-2xl font-semibold">Work with pages</h2>

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      <Card title="Projects and imports" icon="folder-open" href="/en/guides/projects">
        Bring images, archives, and PDFs into one project.
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      <Card title="Process pages" icon="play" href="/en/guides/processing">
        Choose the pages and stages you want to run.
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      <Card title="Review text" icon="spell-check" href="/en/guides/review">
        Correct OCR, wording, names, and line breaks.
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      <Card title="Clean up artwork" icon="eraser" href="/en/guides/cleanup">
        Remove source lettering and repair the image.
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      <Card title="Typeset translations" icon="font" href="/en/guides/typesetting">
        Fit text with fonts, alignment, fill, and stroke.
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      <Card title="Export PNG and PSD" icon="file-export" href="/en/guides/export">
        Deliver flattened images or editable layered files.
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      <Card title="Vision and inpainting" icon="eye" href="/en/models/vision">
        Choose detection, OCR, and image-repair models.
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      <Card title="Translation providers" icon="plug" href="/en/models/providers">
        Connect local models or hosted translation services.
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      <Card title="Translation settings" icon="language" href="/en/models/translation">
        Set language, instructions, and generation options.
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-center text-2xl font-semibold">Koharu Agent</h2>

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      <Card title="Set up the Agent" icon="robot" href="/en/agent/setup">
        Sign in and choose the model for project assistance.
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      <Card title="Work with a project" icon="comment" href="/en/agent/projects">
        Ask the Agent to inspect pages and make scoped edits.
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-center text-2xl font-semibold">Developers</h2>

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      <Card title="Build Koharu" icon="terminal" href="/en/development/setup">
        Set up a checkout and run the desktop application.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Architecture" icon="sitemap" href="/en/development/architecture">
        Follow ownership across the UI, scene, and runtimes.
      </Card>

      <Card title="Contribute" icon="code-pull-request" href="/en/development/contributing">
        Prepare a focused change and a clear pull request.
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-center text-2xl font-semibold">Get help</h2>

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      <Card title="Troubleshooting" icon="circle-question" href="/en/reference/troubleshooting">
        Diagnose problems and collect useful logs.
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      <Card title="Settings" icon="gear" href="/en/reference/settings">
        Find the controls for your workflow.
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      <Card title="Keyboard shortcuts" icon="keyboard" href="/en/reference/shortcuts">
        Navigate and edit with the default tool bindings.
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    <h2 className="mb-6 text-2xl font-semibold">About Koharu</h2>

    Koharu keeps source text, translations, artwork, and layout together in a local project. Run a complete translation pipeline or revise an individual stage, then use the [canvas tools](/en/guides/canvas) to finish the page.

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    <p className="mx-auto mt-6 max-w-2xl text-sm leading-relaxed">Projects stay on your machine. Hosted translation or generation providers receive the content needed for the requests you send.</p>
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