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The task of manual editing of scanned and recognized text of a book is required by clients who want to digitize any scientific work or work of art that exist only in printed form.

Translation memory and machine translation have similar acronyms (Machine Translation Translation Memory), which can be confusing. However, they have significant differences.

We have received many questions from potential clients: how can we guarantee the quality of translation, editing, proofreading, and what to do if errors remain in the text? To be honest, we almost never answer this question. But for a blog post, we`ll try to explain why.

The number of people claiming to be translators and offering translation services nowadays is huge. This resulted in the lower price for translation services making it more attractive for customers but at the same time creating certain difficulties for those who is looking for real professionals devoting all their lives to this job.

Post-editing of machine generated translation is editing and proofreading of the text, resulting in a coherent, understandable, and usable contents for the client.

Ways to attain the best relation between cost and quality of translation services.

When calculating the translation cost, most translation companies take one word of original text or page (~ 250 words) as an accounting unit. As for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, 400 hieroglyphs are taken as an accounting unit.

There were marked out several groups of translations in the context of the complexity in the practice of the translation agencies. Simply said, there are complex and easy translations. The conventional border is marked regarding the time the translator spends to do the translation and the copy editor spends for proofreading.

A permanent source of problems the translation agencies regularly face is a low quality of the original texts received from customers for translation.