Soviet birth certificate, handwritten
Uzbekistan, issued 1973, Uzbek and Russian
Exactly what the product returned. Nobody fixed these files by hand. Scan: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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Manual DTP or an AI layout: what a scanned page really costs
Use your own numbers. The calculator compares the time spent preparing and re-laying out scans with the time needed to review a ChatsControl draft, and it adds our price, so nothing is hidden.
6,000 free characters to start, then topped up to 1,000 every month, no card. See real scans translated, with their Word files
Translation agencies we work with
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At these numbers doing it by hand is cheaper.
Scans are billed at least 1,000 characters per page. A scan costs the characters recognised in it, but at least 1,000 × its number of pages, counted over the whole scan.Examples:a passport, 1 page, 200 recognised → 1,000 chargeda certificate, 2 nearly empty pages, 900 recognised → 2,0002 pages, one dense (3,000) and one nearly empty (100) → 3,100, exactly what was recognised
What the calculator counts
Only the preparation: recognising the text, fixing recognition errors and rebuilding tables and layout. Translating and proofreading are left out because they happen either way, and the translator still reviews our draft.
The starting values are an example, not a claim about your team. Replace them with what you actually see: the fairest way is to time three typical scans from last month.
When manual work is still cheaper
- A single short page that a person retypes in five minutes.
- Badly damaged scans, where so much cannot be read that the draft saves little.
- Authorities that require a fully retyped layout of their own, so the original page layout is not what you deliver.
Hard scans, and the Word files we built from them
Compare the scan with the copy, switch to the translation, and download both files - open them in Word and check for yourself.
CMR consignment note, phone photo
Uzbekistan, photographed on a desk
Exactly what the product returned. Nobody fixed these files by hand. Scan: Solijon Solayev, CC BY-SA 4.0
Apostille in three languages
Brazil, 2021, Portuguese, English and French
Exactly what the product returned. Nobody fixed these files by hand. Scan: Civil registry office in Rio de Janeiro, Public domain
Questions
Why is the price per page an estimate?
We bill characters, not pages, with at least 1,000 per scanned page. A dense certificate has more text than a sparse form, so the calculator lets you set the characters per page yourself.
Does the free allowance count?
The calculator ignores it and prices every page, so the result holds for real volume. The free characters are for testing.
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Put one of your own scans through it
A certificate, a diploma, a form with a table. You will see in two minutes whether it saves your team time.