I have an illustrated PDF document and I need the translation with the same layout. Is that possible?

We often receive chart-laden documents and cataloges full of pictures and charts in PDF format with one instruction: the layout of the translation must be preserved. It is possible but the PDF format itself is not enough. PDF is always the product of another software in which the source document is created, such as Quark or Adobe InDesign. If you manage to get hold of this source format we are not only able to preserve the original layout but we can make a print-ready translation for you, saving you considerable amount of time and money. We really know how it works as we have been working ourselves through thousands of pages of different catalogues and other pdf documents over the last nine years. If the source format is not available we usually recommend two options:

1. We scan the documents with our latest, state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) software and, depending on the results, we make a translation that is similar to but not identical with the source document.

2. If, for some reason, the OCR software cannot properly process the document, we simply translate the text into a Word document without the pictures. We follow the layout as much as possible and clearly refer to captions or other picture-related texts in the translation.

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