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Name Swordfish Translation Editor Smartcat
Review breakdown
(8 reviews)
(103 reviews)
Most helpful review
Works perfectly !
By Patricia Cardet
SDL Trados just ignores the Mac users. It is expensive, the updates are expensive, innovations are rare, the technical support is not responsive. Swordfish is a multi-platform tool. It is relatively cheap, the updates are free. It is a rather new product. Innovations, improvements are coming in regularly. The technical support and the forum are super responsive. The TMX files are Trados compatible. No more SDL Trados for me !!!!!
11 out of 12 found this review helpful.


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Great tool. Very comfort and helpful
By Helen_Mazur
I used this tool above year and be cool with it. Program is constant in progress and getting better. I'm using it for freelance translation and can tell that this tool easy in use and have a lot of free helpful option. Machine translation is paid, but not expansive. Quality of this translation is not excellent, but, hey, where did you see great machine translation? It's just a help instrument, and it's more better Google translate(for example). I really recommend SmartCat. Just try!
10 out of 13 found this review helpful.


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Product description Swordfish III is an advanced CAT (Computer Aided Translation) tool based on XLIFF 1.2 open standard, designed for demanding professional translators. Swordfish III supports exchanging TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), the vendor-neutral open XML standard for the exchange of Translation Memory (TM) data created by Computer Aided Translation (CAT) and localization tools, originally published by LISA (Localisation Industry Standards Association). Swordfish includes a super fast Internal database server and integrated support for RemoteTM in its two editions: LAN Server and Web Server. You can also use third party database engines like Oracle 10g, MySQL 5.x and Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 for storing TM and terminology data

Smartcat is an all-in-one platform connecting businesses and translators into a continuous translation delivery loop by combining a collaborative workflow solution, a marketplace, and a network of translation professionals.

Figures as of mid-2019:
* 10,000+ LSPs and end customers
* 250,000+ freelancers
* 70+ partners in 40+ countries

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Price Options starting at €70.00 free
File formats Abiword Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX) Adobe InDesign IDML (CS4/CS5) DITA Maps HTML Microsoft Office 2007/2010 Microsoft Visio 2007/2010 MIF (Maker Interchange Format) OpenOffice/StarOffice 1.x and DOCX, DOC, TXT, RTF, ODT, HTML, HTM, XLSX, XLS, PPT, PPTX, POTX, PPS, PPSX, ODP, TTX, RESX, ZIP, CSV, IDML, SDLXLIFF, XLF, XLIFF, PDF, BMP, DCX, PCX, PNG, JP2, JPC, JPG, JPEG, JFIF, TIF, TIFF, GIF, DJ
License type Perpetual Perpetual
Operating system Linux, Windows Other, Android, Apple iOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux
System requirements Java 1.6/1.7 from Sun Microsystems or Oracle on Linux/Windows. Java 1.6 from Apple on Mac OS X. WebKitGTK+ 1.2.x is required to run on Linux systems. No need
Compatibility XLIFF Supported natively. Accepts version 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 Uncleaned RTF Accepts uncleaned (tagged) RTF produced by Trados or Wordfast and generates uncleaned RTF from regular RTF files. TTX Seamless
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Support and upgrades offered/included Free upgrades to all future versions
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Support and tutorial links
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 http://www.smartcat.ai/webinar
Free trial
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 http://www.smartcat.ai/
Languages supported
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 English, Russian, Chinese, Turkish



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