Full translation of technical documentation, priced by the source character so the quote is fixed before I begin. The process: I read the whole document first and send you a list of the terms that matter, usually twenty to forty, for your approval. Getting your parts catalogue vocabulary right at the start prevents the kind of error that reads beautifully and orders the wrong component. Then I translate, then I do a technician pass where I read only for whether the steps can be followed by someone who has never seen the machine. What you receive: the translated document in your source format where possible, a bilingual review file, and the termbase as an exportable file that belongs to you. If anything in the Japanese was genuinely ambiguous, you get a short query list rather than my best guess. Rate shown is per 1,000 Japanese source characters for standard technical prose. Patent and legal specifications are quoted separately at a higher rate. Figures, tables and repeated boilerplate are discounted. Minimum charge is one unit. Typical turnaround is 5,000 to 7,000 characters a day once the terminology is settled.

Full translation of technical documentation, priced by the source character so the quote is fixed before I begin. The process: I read the whole document first and send you a list of the terms that matter, usually twenty to forty, for your approval. Getting your parts catalogue vocabulary right at the start prevents the kind of error that reads beautifully and orders the wrong component. Then I translate, then I do a technician pass where I read only for whether the steps can be followed by someone who has never seen the machine. What you receive: the translated document in your source format where possible, a bilingual review file, and the termbase as an exportable file that belongs to you. If anything in the Japanese was genuinely ambiguous, you get a short query list rather than my best guess. Rate shown is per 1,000 Japanese source characters for standard technical prose. Patent and legal specifications are quoted separately at a higher rate. Figures, tables and repeated boilerplate are discounted. Minimum charge is one unit. Typical turnaround is 5,000 to 7,000 characters a day once the terminology is settled.