XLIFF Guide for Localization Engineers: Workflow and Validation
Learn how XLIFF moves content between developers, translators, and tools, how versions differ, and how to validate files before merging localized text.
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Translate Multi-Column Layouts Without Reflow Chaos
Learn why translated columns, tables, and text boxes shift, then use a Word workflow to preserve structure and review the finished layout.
Missing Glyphs After Translation: Causes and Fixes
Seeing squares, blank spaces, or broken letters in a translated file? Learn how to tell font, encoding, and script-shaping problems apart and fix them.
Multilingual Font and Encoding Problems in Documents
Learn to tell missing glyphs, broken character encoding, and script-shaping errors apart, then diagnose Word and PDF problems before sharing a file.
Translate Text in Images: A Guide to Graphics Localization
Learn how to translate text in images without losing layout, choose OCR or editable design files, compare workflows, and check localized graphics before release.
Scanned PDFs in OmegaT, MateCat and Wordfast: What Each Can Do
OmegaT has no OCR, MateCat reads scans into DOCX, Wordfast Anywhere converts them to Word. Steps, limits, costs and the OCR-first route for each tool.
How to Translate a Scanned PDF in Phrase TMS (and XTM Cloud)
Phrase TMS has three PDF filters and only PDF v2 runs OCR. Which one to pick, why photos won't import, what XTM Cloud does with scans and the DOCX routes.
Translate an Image PDF: OCR, Workflow, and File Checks
Learn how to translate an image PDF that has no selectable text, when OCR helps, how to compare tools, and what to check before you share the result.
How to Translate a Scanned PDF in Smartcat: 3 Routes Compared
Smartcat runs OCR, but its default AI PDF Translation rejects scans. Where pdfimageonly fits, how OCR pages are billed and how to get Word back, not a PDF.
How to Translate a Scanned PDF in memoQ 12.5: OCR, Import, Export
memoQ 12.5 can't read a scan. Run OCR outside it, import the Word file or searchable PDF with the right filter mode, and know what you can deliver back.
How to Translate a Scanned PDF in Trados Studio 2024 and 2026
Studio 2024 and 2026 have no built-in OCR. What works for a scan now: PDF Assistant, OCR to Word first, a scan-to-Word copy, and the checks after import.
RTL DTP for Hebrew and Arabic: Fix Mirrored Layouts
Fix Hebrew and Arabic DTP problems by separating paragraph direction, page binding, punctuation, and mixed text. Use a practical InDesign and Word QA workflow.