Document Translation Services

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If you would like a sample translation so that you can check our work before making any commitment, please Contact us, as we can often do this without charge.

As a specialist provider of document translation services to small and medium-sized companies and organisations, we have expert translators available in all major world, European, Asian and African languages.

We are able to work with a wide range of document formats (including Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint files) and also with websites, and we will take care that your documents are translated with the utmost precision and accuracy by skilled translators with a commitment to detail and rigour.

Our document translation services are delivered according to three basic principles which constitute our company's vision of what it means to be a provider of quality and value. We believe that it is our commitment to the implementation of these principles that sets us apart from the majority of other translation companies and agencies:

• Fair and transparent pricing: Rates vary enormously among translation companies, yet seldom reflect differences in quality. High translations rates more often reflect the cumbersome and inflexible administrative structure of the translation company itself rather than any assurance of quality.

  Our goal is not to be the cheapest, but to keep our own operational and structural costs down so that we can offer rates that, while properly reflecting the value of our translators and their work, are often substantially lower than other so called 'leading' translation agencies. And the price we quote is the final price - we don't believe in hidden extras or little additions.

  See Rates and Pricing for more information.

• Every document translated with care: Translation is a highly skilled profession - we think of it as a craft - , and a very intensive and human process. Quality translation requires expertise, commitment and above all care, to ensure that the text of every translation precisely and effectively reflects the message of the original text and its author's intentions at every level.

  Just as important, each translation must be sensitively adapted to the target language and culture and must be written in a totally natural manner. We believe that a translation that reads like a translation and not like an originally written text is a failed translation.

  See The Translation Process and The Review Process for more information.

• A commitment to improvement: Like any skill, competence in translation is something that is developed over many years, and requires a commitment at both an individual level and an organisational level to improve and perfect, and as a human process it is susceptible to human failings. We can never take performance or quality for granted. It is our job as a translation agency to carefully and thoroughly oversee the work of our translators and remain always responsive to our clients' views, expectations and feedback.

  We cannot be perfect all the time, but we can make sure that we respond quickly, honestly and constructively whenever a need for improvement is detected.

  Above all, we believe crucially in the client's contribution and participation in the translation process. There needs to be a constructive two-way relationship between the client and the translator over the long term, so that the translator can develop a close affinity and firm understanding of the client, the way the client likes to communicate, the type of language and vocabulary the client uses, their style, their tone and register. These things are not for us to impose on the client, but for us to learn from the client and reflect faithfully in our work.