All-Round Card Translation Services

Card translation is translating wallet-sized documents - identity cards, residence cards, membership and insurance cards - front and back. The work goes to translators who do this particular job every day, not to a general pool, and each file is checked against the source by a second reviewer before it is sent. This site is built around translation across documents, websites, media and software from one supplier.

The practical part is this: both sides are translated, because the issuing details and validity dates are usually printed on the reverse. It is agreed with you before anyone starts, because the alternative is a first delivery built on a guess and a second round of work to undo it. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.

You are given a date, not a range: rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours where it is urgent, and a firm delivery time in the quote where it is not. Card translation is scheduled against the people who actually do this work, not against a general pool. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date.

The 99+% accuracy standard comes from human work plus an independent check: one translator produces the file, and then another verifies it line by line against the source. What gets checked on card translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous. That second pass is what catches a term rendered two different ways in the same document.

Files are handled under NDA, moved through encrypted transfer and seen only by the assigned team. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Card translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. They can also be deleted on an agreed schedule after delivery, with written confirmation.

In the format your workflow already uses, with real styles and structure instead of flat text, so the file drops into your records without reformatting. The format for card translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say what the card translation is for when you send it, because a filing, a publication and an internal record are formatted differently. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Anything ambiguous is queried with you before work starts.

Worth asking for: machine-readable lines and card numbers are reproduced exactly as printed rather than retyped from memory. It is easier to set at order stage than to retrofit, and it costs nothing on top of the quoted rate when it is part of the original brief. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Yes, in 100+ languages, each handled by a native speaker and not by someone working from a dictionary. What card translation involves does not change with the language, and the same independent check happens before delivery. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. Card translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Quotes are calculated from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.