The Best Free Software for Localization
The Google Translator Toolkit is a free web-based CAT tool that requires a Google account. With the Google Translator Toolkit, translators can organize their work and use shared translations, glossaries and translation memories. They can upload and translate Microsoft Word documents, OpenOffice.org, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles, and more. [contextazon […]
Google Translate can perform translations from single words to long paragraphs in many language pairs (e.g. English <-> German, English <-> Japanese). Now with Google’s Neural Machine Translation System this free service is better than ever before. After several month of intense testing we can now say that the results […]
Updates: Linux based OS tuxtrans, an OS for translators, contains OmegaT OmegaT is a free computer-assisted translation tool (CAT) or translation memory application written in Java. It is a tool intended for professional translators. [contextazon id=’1′] OmegaT has the following features among others: Fuzzy matching Match propagation Simultaneous processing of […]
[contextazon id=’1′] Count Anything is a free word-count utility for Windows. Word/character counts are an essential part of the work of translators, writers, and others who need to bill based on word counts. There are several word-count utilities around, some of them free, but this one was written because other […]
Office tools are a very important building block, because documents received for translation are in many cases provided as a document in Microsoft format (doc, docx, etc.). Microsoft Office (or compatible software) is therefore the tool most people would go for and you would need a version with at least […]