Scriptorium 0.2.0 (test pre-release)

The second test build of Scriptorium, with a new interface. This is still an early pre-release: expect rough edges, and check results against your sources. Text extraction, transcription and analyses have now run against the live OpenAI, Claude and Mistral APIs with real keys; Gemini has not yet.

What's new

• A new interface, "Graphite and highlighter": grey frame, white work surface, one black button per screen with its keyboard shortcut, and the highlighter yellow kept for where models disagree. Instrument Sans for the interface, Source Serif 4 for the text being checked, IBM Plex Mono for what a machine produced. All fonts ship with the app, so it works offline.
• The sidebar lists your jobs: running, unfinished and finished, with their progress. New job is always at the top (Ctrl N). The list folds to a narrow rail (Ctrl B) when you need room.
• A new review:
  • The scan sits on a dark lightbox so the page is the brightest thing on screen.
  • Pointing at a highlighted word shows what each model read there; click the correct reading, or type your own, and it is saved as a correction. The model's own text is always kept.
  • Compare opens another model's whole text beside yours, with the same differences marked in both.
  • The panes can be resized by dragging the lines between them.
  • A strip of pages shows what is reviewed. F and Shift F step through differences, Ctrl Enter marks a page reviewed.
• Languages are chosen from a searchable list with favourites, and only the choices the selected models support are offered.
• A new app icon: a page with one line highlighted.

Fixes

• Starting a job no longer crashes the app.
• Transcripts give one turn per speaker, with plain speaker names (found in the first live runs).
• New job uses the window's full width.

Download

• Scriptorium_0.2.0_arm64-setup.exe: Windows 11 on ARM64 (Snapdragon laptops). It installs over 0.1.0. An x64 build will follow.

Known limitations

• Unsigned installer: Windows SmartScreen will warn. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
• English interface only; French and German will follow.
• The name is not final (#1).

Included software

Scriptorium bundles FFmpeg 9.0.2 (audio only) under the LGPL v2.1 or later, with libopus (BSD); nothing needs to be installed separately. The exact source of the bundled FFmpeg, its build configuration and licences are in the ffmpeg-9.0.2-1 release. Offline transcription uses whisper.cpp (MIT). The fonts are under the SIL Open Font License.

See the roadmap for what comes next.