lesia 0.1.8

A library for automated directory translation

Lesia

About

Lesia is a tool to help you maintain your multilingual documents that integrates easily into your workflow.

Features

• Translate documents easily
• Preserves syntax (LaTeX/Markdown/MyST/Typst)
• Learns from your post-edits
• Preserves terminology (you may provide your vocabulary)
• Good quality translation
• Integrates easily in any workflow
• Easy to use for collaborative use (e.g. git)
• Supports any LLM of your choice

Documentation

• Library API reference
• CLI documentation
• Architecture and algorithms

Installation

1. Make sure you have uv installed
2. Install it via uv uv tool install lesia
3. Verify that it works lesia --help

Usage

1. Create a directory dedicated for the project: mkdir my-dir
2. cd my-dir
3. Initialize the project lesia init
4. Create a directory for the documents you want to translate mkdir -p src/fr
   • In this example our source language is French
5. Move your files to the created source directory src/fr
6. Create directories for target languages mkdir -p tgt/en, mkdir -p tgt/ua
7. Associate source and target directories with desired languages

   lesia set-source srs/fr french
   lesia set-target tgt/en english
   lesia set-target tgt/ua ukrainian
   

8. Mark files that should be translated lesia add src/fr/main.md
9. Synchronize directories lesia sync
10. Set a model you want to use for translation lesia set-llm google gemini-3.0-flash
11. Set a token (if needed) export LLM_API_KEY=your-key
12. Translate

    lesia translate all english
    lesia translate all ukrainian
    

13. Learn more in the docs

Development

1. Ensure you have uv tool installed (visit their site for the installation guide)
2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/DobbiKov/lesia
3. Enter cd lesia
4. Install dependencies uv sync
5. Install tool from your directory and make it editable uv tool install -e .
6. Enjoy

Contributing

The suggestions and pull requests are welcome.

Citation

If you use this software in your research or writing, please cite it as follows:

@software{korotenko_lesia_2026,
  author       = {Korotenko, Yehor},
  title        = {lesia},
  month        = jun,
  year         = 2026,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v0.1.7},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.20610935},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20610935}
}

French University Support

Free access to open-source models via ILaaS; no API key required for Paris-Saclay members if running your translations from MyDocker.

Credits

• Nicolas M. Thiéry - for supervising this project.
• LISN (Université Paris-Saclay) - for financing the internship and providing workspace.
• CMA SaclAI-School - for financing the project.