Clear-Cut Written Translation

Written translation is a document rendered in another language and handed back as a file you can read, send or file. 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.

Typically buyers who searched for one thing but need the other - a document, not someone in the room. In each case someone downstream relies on the file being correct, so a term rendered two different ways in the same document is not a small problem, and a second reviewer checks the work before it is sent. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

Only the people doing the work can open your material, and all of them are under NDA. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Written translation often involves material people would not want circulated, so the file is closed to everyone except the pair working on it. Transfer is encrypted in both directions, and deletion on an agreed schedule can be set up where your records require it.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text. The format for written translation is agreed at order stage, so the first delivery is the one you can file, send on or publish. Your house template can be applied from the first order, which is what keeps a set of documents looking like one set.

The result is a file, so it can be checked, amended and used again, which a spoken session cannot be. None of that is left to chance on the day: it is confirmed at quoting stage. The translator works into their own first language, which is what keeps long text readable instead of merely correct.

If a meeting or call is also involved, that is booked separately as an interpreter and charged by time. Nothing there is an upgrade, and work that falls outside the agreed written translation brief is priced separately and only once you have agreed to it. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

Yes. Written translation is available in 100+ languages, with every file going to a native speaker of the target language and a reviewer who also reads it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid. Where a language is rare, availability is checked before the quote.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Written translation is quoted from the material you send, so a short job and a long one are worked out the same way. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

It depends on length and on how difficult the source is, and the time is in the quote before you commit. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers the urgent end. Written 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 standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, and a second checks it before release. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. What gets checked on written translation is the detail a reader would otherwise have to verify alone: names, figures, terms and anything the source left ambiguous.