What is KWIKTRANS™
KWIKTRANS is a new service that GLTaC is preparing to
offer our technical translation clients, focused on providing fast translation
of patents and technical research papers that are not available in English.
If you consider the graph of cost vs. quality in Figure 1
below, you can see that machine translation is fast and relatively
inexpensive, but the quality is not as good as a human translation.
But in many cases, the quality may be sufficient for the level of
understanding required, and the quicker turnaround time with the lower cost
provides value. There is always
the option of the higher cost, higher quality completely human translation
available.
Many factors affect the speed, quality and cost of your
translation, but the most critical is the original document format and
quality. The table below (Figure
2.) shows the standard steps involved with various document formats, and as
you can see, the more steps we can eliminate, the lower your cost and quicker
your turnaround time.
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Paper
Copy
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.PDF
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.TIFF
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MS
WORD
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RTF
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Scan
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Convert to TIFF
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OCR
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MAT
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MAT
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Post-Edit
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OCR
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Post-Edit
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Post-Edit
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Post-Edit
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OCR
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Post-Edit
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MAT
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Post-Edit
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MAT
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Post-Edit
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MAT
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Post-Edit
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Post-Edit
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Figure 2.
You may submit your translation requests through our
normal quote process until we have the KWIKTRANS™ pages fully implemented.