Medical Translation Insight

7 localization tools - free or almost free

Written by ForeignExchange Translations on Monday, February 04, 2013

When it comes to buying translation tools, it's easy for medical translators to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars/euros/pounds. So I was glad to see the following tools listed in Jost Zetzsche's Tool Box Newsletter:

• CheckMate - a free, cross-platform QA tool from the Okapi family of tools
• CodeZapper - powerful eliminator of underlying codes in Word documents (we covered an earlier version here)
• TuMatXa - a translation memory repository that allows you to manage and share your TMs online
• TMX Assistant - manages translation memory exchange files (cost: $24)
• IntelliWebSearch - new and improved thanks to language-specific search scripts
• T-Index - annual list showing how important it is to translate which languages to reach what audience
• Xbench - the amazing QA tool that we previously covered here (not free but oh-so-worth-it)

Great tools that every medical translation professional should know! And speaking of "knowing", make sure you subscribe to Jost's excellent Tool Box Newsletter!

For more on translation technology, take a look at these past articles:

• QA Distiller
• The subversion of translation
• Tools for localizing e-learning programs
• Nine free term extraction tools

ForeignExchange Translations provides medical translation services with measurable quality to the world's largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
 

 

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4 Comments:

1. Vladimir Kukharenko said...
   February 5, 2013 at 1:46 AM  
   1 more tool:
   
   ChangeTracker - www.change-tracker.com. It compares two bilingual files and produces the report of corrections in xls file.
   LSP.net said...
   February 5, 2013 at 3:54 AM  
   We would like to mention our free online
   CAT Weighting Tool
   Anonymous said...
   February 6, 2013 at 11:31 AM  
   I found Verifika QA tool faster and smarter then QA Distiller :-)
   Alexander Barrel said...
   May 16, 2013 at 9:45 AM  
   I want to suggest an addition to your almost free localization tool list, https://poeditor.com/ - it's free within a limit of strings and it has plenty of nice features that help you do the work faster (translation memory, glossary, automatic translation). It's really worth trying.

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