Mistakes to Avoid When Choosing a Technical Document Translator Nowadays, technical documents are everywhere. Be it manufacturing, software, healthcare, education, or any other industry, they have technical documents in multiple languages. So it is crucial for the business owners to partner with a trusted technical document translation agency. Let’s understand with an example, suppose that your organization has a product release and it requires troubleshooting manuals and guides in 15 languages. In this situation or any other situation like this, when you have a myriad of content to produce and are approaching deadlines, you don’t give much thought to the translation agency you partner with. However, it can result in some translation mistakes that can be avoided by simply partnering with and professional technical document translator. Further in this blog, we will be discussing what mistakes you should avoid when hiring a technical document translator. Not thinking about the translation holistically It’s easy to develop the habit of thinking about just a single translation project rather than considering organizational translation as a whole. People from different departments create content in silos. For instance, at the time of software release, you may have developers working on the software, writers creating manuals and help files, and marketing specialists updating the website. If you don’t make efforts to work together and use the same terminology, units of measurements, benefits, etc, then your pre-sales and post-sale collateral may not match each other and the software as well. You may not think about the resources that your technical translation company needs to complete the work. If the different departments send the different projects at the same time, the translators most likely will not be able to use the same resources. This makes it tough for them to deliver projects on time and adhere to the budget.
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