Zfuro is a full planning and full production system in one SaaS. Once a project is planned on the planning board, the same platform runs the actual work: translating, cleaning, typesetting and checking every page until it is ready to deliver. This article walks through how a page travels that path.
The five stages
The production pipeline has five live stages:
- Translation turns the source script into the target language.
- Proofreading reviews that translation for accuracy and tone.
- Editing covers cleaning and typesetting, placing the finished text back onto the page.
- Quality Checking confirms the page reads and looks right.
- Delivery Check is the final pass before the page leaves the studio.
Not every project needs all five. You decide which stages a project uses, with per-project overrides, so a lightweight job and a full studio pipeline can live side by side.
Work is tracked per page, per stage
Zfuro tracks progress at the page level, not one card per chapter. Each page has its own task at each stage, with a clear current step and a clear point of completion. That means you can see exactly where a chapter stands, which pages are still moving and where a bottleneck is forming, instead of guessing from a single chapter-level status.
Role-based handoffs
A page advances through the pipeline by handoff. When a worker finishes their stage, the page moves to the next stage and the next role. Handoffs are not one-way traps: a reviewer can send a page back to a previous stage when something needs rework, and a worker can pull their own page back to fix it before it moves on.
Who can write, and when
Write access across stages is governed by a mode you choose per project:
- Strict freezes a stage once its work is handed off, so finished pages stay stable.
- Flex lets the stage immediately before the current one still make edits.
- Open lets any earlier stage edit.
Pick the mode that matches how much your team needs to reach back into earlier work.
The page-by-page editor
The editor is a full in-browser canvas. Translation bubbles and markers sit over the page, source text and target sit side by side, and you can zoom and pan freely as you work. Eligible pages are edited right in the browser. For studios that live in Photoshop and InDesign, typesetting can also be driven through dedicated scripts, so the finishing work happens in the tools your letterers already know.
OCR as a first pass
To speed the translator's first pass, text is extracted automatically from each page and grouped into bubbles. This is a starting point, not a verdict: a human always drives the final quality of every line.
Staying aligned
Built-in project chat, with rooms and direct messages, keeps the team coordinated in real time. Chat is scoped to the projects each person is on, so conversations stay relevant and private to the right people.