If you think about it honestly, the routine tools — segmentation, checks, word counts — are found in many programs today. What really keeps you in yours is your own base: the glossary, the terms, the thousands of sentences you have built up yourself over the years. The program simply stores them.
What your program cannot do
Clients are sending more and more scans and photos for translation: birth certificates, diplomas, official certificates — with stamps, tables and handwritten notes. A CAT tool cannot rebuild the layout of such a document. You do it by hand, and it often takes longer than the translation itself.
So it is worth asking: how relevant is your tool still today?
What artificial intelligence can do
AI is used more and more widely for translation today. And it does well exactly the work your program cannot do: it rebuilds the layout of the original straight from the scan — tables, stamps and notes stay where they are. That saves you hours of manual work.
The ideal solution: combine the two
The capabilities of AI, which rebuilds the document, and your own experience: the base of terms, phrases and glossary you have built up.
This is exactly how Lingverra works today:
- You move your base from any other program in a couple of clicks: the glossary from Excel, CSV, TBX or MultiTerm, the translation memory from TMX.
- Lingverra translates the document straight from the scan — with a perfect layout of the original.
- The translation uses your terms and follows the phrasing you have developed over many years.
- Places with doubts are highlighted, so they are easy to check.
What you get is a document in which you only need to check the few highlighted places and correct them if necessary. And the document reproduces your translation style — built on your own experience and many years of work.
Your base stays yours
- At any time you can export everything back — the memory to TMX, the glossary to TBX or CSV — and carry on in any other program.
- Your clients’ document data is processed and stored exclusively in the EU/EEA.
- Sentences with dates, document numbers, IBANs, e-mail addresses and phone numbers are not stored when you upload a memory.
Try it on your own document
Upload your glossary, translate one of your own scans and compare the result yourself.
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