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Translation and Localization Tools
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Market overview of recommendable translation and localization tools, especially in connection with the creation of technical documentation and user assistance (user manuals, online help files, demos, tutorials).
Langenscheidt T1 Professional Englisch, Französich, Spanisch
Machine translation tool with built-in translation memory for German<>Englisch, German<>French, German<>Spanish
Price: approx. €250 each
http://www.langenscheidt.de
Linguatec Personal Translator Professional
Price: approx. €249
http://www.linguatec.net
Power Translator
Price: approx. €50 (Home) and €180 (Professional)
http://www.avanquest.com
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Sysfilter
Utility to transfer text from Visio, Excel, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, CorellDraw into Microsoft Word. After translation, texts can automatically be re-transferred back into the original document.
Price: approx. €40 up to €400
http://www.ecm-e.de
ErrorSpy
Quality assurance software for translations. Can check for terminology, consistency, number errors, completeness, tags, acronyms, typography, missing translations. Reads Trados, Transit and XLIFF files.
Price: approx. €249 (Freelance) and €490 (Full)
http://www.dog-gmbh.com
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Babylon
Price: approx. €79
http://www.babylon.com
Langenscheidt e-Wörterbücher (German <> English)
Price: approx. €69 up to €250
http://www.langenscheidt.de
WordWeb
Excellent monolingual English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Great for technical documentation purposes: The most frequently used terms are printed in bold, so you can prefer these of you want to create documentation in "basic English" for non-native speakers.
Price: free
http://wordweb.info/free/
StarDict
Outstanding cross-platform dictionary software. Many great dictionaries (including engineering and economics) are available for download.
Price: free (Open Source)
http://stardict.sourceforge.net
Atlantida
Multilingual dictionary written in Java. Uses XDXF dictionary format. Many dictionaries available.
Price: free (Open Source)
http://atla.revdanica.com/en/
LingoPad
Free off-line multilingual dictionary with several dictionaries. The most comprehensive ones are English <> German, Japanese <> German and English <> Arabic.
Price: free
http://www.ego4u.com/en/lingopad (English)
http://www.ego4u.de/de/lingopad (German)
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Keywords relating to this page: tools - software - programs - utilities - translation - localization - translation memory - translation memory systems - translation memory tools - translation memories - TMS - CAT - CAT tools - machine translation - dictionaries - survey - overview - market overview - review - price - prices - costs.
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