Technical documentation
translated for the market it ships to
Selling a product into another market usually means the instructions have to follow it — in that market’s language, saying exactly what the original says. We translate manuals so the warnings warn and the steps work.
- Operating and installation manuals
- Safety instructions and warnings
- Datasheets and specifications
- One termbase across every document
- Delivered in your source format
Get your quote
Send the manual, or a chapter of it, and we will reply with a fixed price.
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What careful means here
Safety wording, verbatim in spirit
A warning is a legal statement as much as a sentence. It comes out exactly as strong in the target language — never softened by fluent paraphrase.
One term, one translation
A part called three different things across a manual produces support tickets. Your termbase makes sure every component keeps one name, everywhere.
Formats, handled
InDesign, XML, structured authoring exports, plain Word. You get the translation back in the format your documentation lives in, ready to publish.
Updates priced on the difference
Next year’s manual is mostly this year’s manual. With your translation memory, only what changed is translated and charged.
The economics of a maintained manual
Technical documentation is where translation memory stops being jargon and becomes arithmetic. A user manual gets revised, not rewritten: a new model adds a chapter, a safety notice changes, a spec table updates. If your translator keeps no memory of the last version, you pay to retranslate the whole document every time — and risk the unchanged parts drifting.
We keep a translation memory and a termbase for every documentation client. The second version of a manual costs a fraction of the first, the terminology cannot drift between versions, and a change made once propagates to every language you publish in.
This is also where we put machine translation to honest use: for high-volume, low-risk sections it can produce a usable draft, which a qualified translator then revises in full. For safety-critical wording, we do not start from a machine draft at all. We tell you which approach we are proposing, and why, in the quote.
Happy to be of service,
Gabriel Brunner, Founder
Four simple steps to your translation
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Send us the documentation
The source files if you have them, a PDF if you do not. Tell us the target markets and any wording your product must keep.
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Receive your quote
A fixed price and a delivery date, with repetition and previously translated content already discounted.
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Approve the quote
Say yes and we start. For documentation that updates regularly, we agree terms once and skip this step from then on.
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Receive your translation
In your source format, terminology consistent with every earlier document, revised by a second translator.
Our happy clients
Some of the companies whose documentation we translate.
