The Best Free Software for Localization
QuicDic is a free dictionary with a huge database and also includes several games that can help you to learn German. Yes, unfortunately the games are only availabe to learn German, not the other way around. However, the dictionary is available for both ways English<>German. Features as stated on the […]
[contextazon id=’1′] DeepL is the best free machine translation engine you can find online for the languages it supports. This is of course just our opinion but it is based on many translations we have finished to test this service. The translations provided by DeepL are in general better than […]
[contextazon id=’1′] GoldenDict is an excellent free desktop software for everyone who would like to have all needed dictionaries and encyclopedias in one place for a quick research. The project, as the creators describe it, aims to create a feature-rich dictionary lookup program The set-up is simple and in addition […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Copyfish OCR is a free extension for the Chrome and Firefox browsers and does a pretty good job. Update from the Copyfish team: Copyfish is back under our control! A new, clean and safe version of Copyfish (reviewed by Google) is now available for download. The stolen and […]
[contextazon id=’1′] LanguageTool is a free open source proof-reading software for English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and more than 20 other languages. It finds many errors that a simple spelling checker can not detect as well as grammar problems and is used in some CAT tools such as OmegaT. If […]
[contextazon id=’1′] tuxtrans, a Desktop GNU/Linux System developed for translators, is not only completely free (based on free software, open source) but is a truly complete system. It is an operating system with all needed software for the freelance translator or any other translator. Interesting article: Why you should use […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Heartsome Translation Studio 8.0 is the last CAT tool developed by Heartsome Technologies Ltd and is now open-source and available for free. Its ease-of-use, scalability, portability and stability places it among other industry-leading software but, since it is now available for free, at a much better performance-price ratio. […]
[contextazon id=’1′] LingoPad is a free multilingual dictionary for Windows and is available for private and commercial use. As a desktop application it has the advantage that no Internet connection is needed. The development of the software directly under Windows has stopped but it is still running perfectly fine with […]
[contextazon id=’1′] The free Heartsome TMX Editor is a powerful editor for all TM-based CAT programs. It offers many useful and convenient features in addition to the usual editing functions so that all maintenance tasks can be performed easily with a single tool. The Heartsome TMX Editor does not need […]
[contextazon id=’1′] The online CAT tool SmartCAT is a free multifunction work environment for professional translators All key translation automation instruments are combined into a single solution. Apart from translation memory, SmartCAT offers state-of-the-art machine translation, customer glossary support and automatic quality checks. To start your work, just open a […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Xbench is a powerful free tool for Quality Assurance and Terminology Management from ApSIC. The free version 2.9 supports dozens of different CAT file formats but is unfortunately only available for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and is Non-Unicode. So far we posted a lot of CAT tools […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Virtaal is yet another free translation (CAT: Computer Aided Translation) tool with Translation Memory (TM) for the desktop and was initially developed for software translation. It provides a very simple and minimalistic interface. The tool supports many file formats, including PO, Java .properties, OpenOffice, Mozilla, XLIFF, TMX, TBX, […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Across is another integrated CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool for the desktop and is available as a free full “Personal Edition” for freelancers. Across supports more than 35 file formats and provides unlimited use of the translation memory and terminology modules. Note: Across is a very controversial CAT […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Poedit is a free tool to translate software, websites and apps which use Gettext PO files for localization. WordPress, PHP projects and Django for example use PO files and on Linux PO files are used for nearly everything. Poedit uses a very compact format for its editor so […]
Update: Translate faster using QTranslate and Google GNMT in your Translation Software [contextazon id=’1′] QTranslate is a free desktop translator for Windows. This small utility translates text in any application that supports text selection. It also has the ability to speak text and perform a dictionary search. You can also […]
[contextazon id=’1′] The Free Language Translator is another desktop application using the Google translation tools to translate text between more than 30 languages. The tool can be used to translate text you type or paste directly into the editor or you can translate documents available in some of the more […]
Wordfast Anywhere is the industry’s largest free and completely confidential web-based TM tool (Translation Memory). Wordfast Anywhere allows translators to work from anywhere they have a web-browser, accessing and sharing TM assets in a secure online translation environment. [contextazon id=’1′] Access Your Data Anywhere, Anytime WFA frees translators from their […]
[contextazon id=’1′] MateCat is an open source, enterprise-level, web-based translation software which closely integrates machine translation and human translation. Using MateCat, you obtain between 10% and 20% more matches for your translations thanks to the largest public translation memory in the world and the best machine translation currently in use. […]
[contextazon id=’1′] S3.Google Translator is a free Firefox extension that adds the power of Google Translate’s automatic translations to your Firefox browser! It supports translation of a selected text, of an entered phrase or translates a whole webpage between any of 80+ languages. In addition the extension is able to […]
Made with Lisp The Regex Coach is a free graphical application for Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has the following features: [contextazon id=’1′] It shows whether a regular expression matches a particular target string. It can also show which parts of the […]
The free XLIFF Editor is a versatile open source translation editor using the XLIFF standard. It aims to provide translators with a quality editor for both documentation and software. It features tag protection and interactive Translation Memory. [contextazon id=’1′] Highlights: Versatile, can be used for both software and documentation Sentence […]
With the free Babylon Translator, you can quickly and easily translate any text on the screen with just a click on your mouse, no matter what application you are using. Babylon.com is a leading provider of language solutions with translations in 77 different languages. Babylon offers dictionaries, professional translation, language […]
Good dictionaries will help you to avoid spelling mistakes and are used in many applications such as CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tools and word processors. [contextazon id=’1′] Hunspell itself is a spell checker and morphological analyzer for complex languages and is implemented in applications like OmegaT (CAT tool), OpenOffice (word […]
Olifant is a free TM Editor that makes up for the shortcomings of CAT programs which provide either a very basic, and hence inadequate memory-editing facility, or none at all. [contextazon id=’1′] As a TM Editor Olifant allows you to load or import translation memories in different formats (such as […]
Congratulations! With the tools and online services from the previous 10 posts you now have the basic equipment to work as a freelance translator. This does of course not mean, that you now have a perfectly and completely equipped home office. But it is a start. [contextazon id=’1′] All following […]