Technical Translation
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A technical document is a system of names. The same component, control or procedure has to be called the same thing on page nine and on page four hundred, in the manual and on the label and in the training material – because an operator looking for a part that is named two ways will find neither.
Terminology is agreed and fixed before translation starts, held against your account and reused on every job after it. Work comes back in the format it went out in, with text rebuilt inside diagrams and drawings rather than dumped underneath them.
WHAT WE TRANSLATE in technical work
- Operating and maintenance manuals
- Installation and commissioning guides
- Technical specifications and data sheets
- Safety documentation and warnings
- Drawings, schematics and CAD callouts
- Standard operating procedures
- Quality and inspection documentation
- Training and competency material
- Tender and bid documentation
- Product labelling and packaging copy
- Patents and technical disclosures
- Software strings and interface text
Not on the list? Send it anyway – the analysis is free and we will tell you honestly whether it is work we should be doing. The full service is on professional translation.
THREE THINGS that decide whether technical translation is any good
The glossary comes before the first sentence
Component names, control labels, procedure names and anything you have decided not to translate are agreed and fixed before a word is written, and then held against your account so the next manual matches the last one. On a long document translated by a team this is the difference between a usable manual and a document an operator cannot search.
The file format is part of the job
Text lives inside XLIFF and DITA, inside InDesign and FrameMaker, inside CAD callouts and inside images. Extracting it, translating it and giving you a Word file back leaves you with the rebuild to do. Work comes back in the format it arrived in, with callouts and captions in place, so it goes straight into the next revision.
Safety text is reproduced, not improved
Warnings, cautions, symbols and references to standards are translated exactly and left where they are. They are frequently the part a regulator or a purchaser checks first, and a rewritten warning – even a clearer one – is a changed document. If something in the source looks wrong, we flag it to you rather than fixing it silently.
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At EKO 4 Translations we guarantee 100%
- Document Acceptance
- Accuracy and Quality
- Delivery on Time
- Free Corrections
WHAT YOU GET on every project
- Accredited and sworn, fully bilingual philologist and linguist human translators
- An additional native-speaking proofreader on every project for quality assurance
- Professional DTP editing and formatting, so the translation mirrors your original
- A signed affidavit and declaration of translation accuracy whenever one is needed
- The company wet stamp for authenticity
- Official certification on company letterhead
- Full compliance with the ISO 17100 quality standard
- A physical copy with wet stamps and company letterhead where one is required
- Nothing of yours has to travel – a scan is enough, and hard copies come to you
- Any iterations, corrections and editing free of charge, same day or next day
HOW FIRMS actually order this
One-off work is ordered like anything else: send the file, approve the quote, get it back. Where it stops being one-off is where an account starts earning its keep.
On a corporate account
Terms agreed once, your terminology kept between jobs, priority handling and one statement instead of an invoice per document – for the teams that send technical work every week.
Corporate accounts & partnerships →Certified, and what that means
A signed declaration of accuracy on company letterhead, dated, with the translator named and our wet stamp – the form UK authorities, courts and institutions check for.
Certified translation →What happens to the file
The same five stages every order goes through, and the three-stage quality assessment behind stage four. Nothing is skipped because a job is small.
How it works →Some of our clients
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TECHNICAL TRANSLATION questions, answered
What formats can you work in?
The ones your documentation actually lives in: XLIFF, DITA, .po, JSON, XML and CSV for structured content; InDesign, FrameMaker, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for documents; and text inside drawings and images rebuilt in place. Send a sample if you have something unusual and we will confirm before you commit.
How do you keep terminology consistent across a long manual?
One glossary and one translation memory per account, agreed up front and reused on every job, with a standing team rather than whoever is free. Repeated text is counted once rather than treated as new, which also means a revision costs what actually changed.
Can you handle volume against a launch date?
Up to 11,000 words a day across a team working from the same terminology base, with the same three-stage quality assessment as a single certificate. Tell us the date when you send the files.
Do you translate software strings as well as documentation?
Yes. Interface strings, error messages and help content are part of the same terminology base as the manual, which is the only way the button in the software and the button in the manual end up with the same name. Full product and website work is on the website, app and software localisation page.
What happens if the source document has an error in it?
We tell you and leave the source as it is. A translator quietly correcting a specification is a worse problem than the original error, because nobody downstream knows it happened.
Is our documentation kept confidential?
Yes, under UK GDPR, on our own platform rather than emailed around, seen only by the linguists on your account. We will sign your NDA before anything is sent.
Send us the file
You will have an itemised written quote, a delivery date and a straight answer on what the receiving body actually needs – free, with no obligation, and handled confidentially under UK GDPR. We will sign your NDA first if you would rather.
Or talk to a person: 0333 772 1444 · info@translationsuk.com
TECHNICAL TRANSLATION wherever your offices are
The whole service runs digitally, so where you are makes no difference to the work, the timing or the price. Send files, approve the quote, and the finished work comes back by email – with a wet-stamped hard copy posted to your address when one is needed.
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