Translation and Localization Tools

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).

SDL Trados

Price: approx. €845 up to €2995

Déjà Vu

Price: approx. €250 (Standard) and €660 (Professional)

Wordfast

Price: approx. €330

Transit

Price: upon request

Across

Price: approx. €980

Araya

Price: approx. €400

MemoQ

Price: approx. $179 (Sandard); approx. $770 (Pro)

Metatexis

Price: free (Lite); approx. €98 (Pro); approx. €138 (Office)

MultiTrans

Price: upon request

MadCap Lingo

Price: approx. $599

OmegaT

Price: free (Open Source)

openTMS

Price: free (Open Source)

OpenTM2

Price: free (Open Source)

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

Linguatec Personal Translator Professional

Price: approx. €249

Power Translator

Price: approx. €50 (Home) and €180 (Professional)

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. €35 up to €400

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 €520 (Full)

Okapi Framework

Set of components and applications that support localizing and translating documentation and software. Also provides many interesting features for technical writers such as find and replace, various conversions and many more.

Price: free (Open Source)

Babylon

Price: approx. €88

Langenscheidt e-Wörterbücher (German <> English)

Price: approx. €69 up to €250

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: the basic version is free; Pro version approx. €16

StarDict

Outstanding cross-platform dictionary software. Many great dictionaries (including engineering and economics) are available for download.

Price: free (Open Source)

Atlantida

Multilingual dictionary written in Java. Uses XDXF dictionary format. Many dictionaries available.

Price: free (Open Source)

LingoPad

Free off-line multilingual dictionary with several dictionaries. The most comprehensive ones are English <> German, Japanese <> German and English <> Arabic.

Price: free (Freeware)

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This page was last updated 08/2010.

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