Drop in an SDL Trados package or an everyday document — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, TXT or CSV — and get an AI translation back that keeps its formatting, respects your terminology, and matches your translation memory. Free to try, no card required.
Already translated? Check it with the QA Checker — SDL Trados files, Word files and PDFs, even scans; tags, terminology, spelling and consistency, no AI involved — then fix every error in the report and download the corrected file.
Whether you work in SDL Trados Studio all day or just need a document translated before lunch, you get one balance, one free trial and one dashboard — plus a free QA Checker for the final pass.
Open an SDLPPX, SDLRPX or SDLXLIFF in a full segment editor that works the way Studio does — right in your browser.
Upload an Office file, a PDF or plain text and download it translated — ready to open and use straight away.
Upload a return package (SDLRPX), project package (SDLPPX) or SDLXLIFF files together with your translation memory and termbase and get a full quality report in seconds. Then search every segment, correct the translation right in the report and download the corrected file — a step classic QA tools like Xbench leave to your CAT tool. Every check is a fixed rule; your files are never sent to AI.
A desktop CAT workflow — with nothing to install.
Upload an Office file, PDF, text file or SDL Trados package. Add your glossary and translation memory — exact matches cost nothing.
Run the rule-based QA Checker on SDLXLIFF, SDLRPX or SDLPPX files: tags, terms, numbers, punctuation, spelling and consistency.
Correct issues in the report, compare with neighbouring segments and download the finished file or a return package for Trados Studio.
Translation memory, termbase enforcement, and format preservation — the parts that make a translation usable, not just readable.
Start with a free trial, then pay per word. You always see the exact total — word count × $0.005 — before anything is charged.
Everything about AI document translation, SDL Trados compatibility, pricing, and how your data is handled.
SDL Trados packages (.sdlppx, .sdlrpx, .sdlxliff) and everyday documents: Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), PowerPoint (.pptx), PDF — including scanned PDFs — images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, BMP), plain text and CSV. Drop any of these into the upload box and we detect the type automatically.
No. Everything runs in your browser — no plugins, no desktop software, no SDL Trados Studio license required to translate an sdlxliff.
118 languages and variants — from German, English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese to regional variants such as Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Chinese (Traditional) and Serbian (Latin). Popular languages are listed first in the language selector.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files are edited in place — the same fonts, table styles, and slide layouts come back untouched, just with translated text. PDF is best-effort: page layout, images, and positioning are preserved, but replacement text is drawn in a standard font rather than the document's original one, since PDF fonts usually can't be reused directly.
Yes. As soon as you upload a document, the original is shown next to a format preview in which every word is replaced by XXXXX — the layout your translation will land in. Nothing is billed until you click Translate.
Yes. After uploading, the word count and estimated price appear at once. Choose Translate it yourself to open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF files and scans in the free online editor — original and translation side by side, segment by segment. Or let AI translate first and click Review in editor to check and correct every segment. Download the finished file in its original format with the layout kept. AI help inside the editor costs $0.005 per word.
Yes. Pages without a text layer — scanned PDFs, photos and image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, BMP) — are read with OCR in 99 languages, translated and written back into the page, so the layout of the scan is kept. The format preview shows the recognised text before you pay; up to 50 scanned pages per file are recognised. How OCR translation works.
Translation memory (TM) is a store of sentence pairs from previous translations. Upload a parallel text or an SDL translation memory and any 100% exact match is applied instantly — no AI call, no charge. Only genuinely new text reaches the model.
A termbase (glossary) defines preferred and forbidden translations for specific terms — product names, technical vocabulary, brand language. Uploading one injects those rules into every AI prompt so terminology stays consistent from the first page to the last.
Document translation uses Gemini 2.5 Flash by default, and automatically upgrades to Gemini 2.5 Pro when you turn on AI proofreading. SDL Trados translation uses Gemini 2.5 Pro throughout.
The online service is AI translation with optional AI proofreading. If you need human review, email us at info@linigu.com.
Yes. Upload an sdlppx, sdlrpx, or sdlxliff and translate it in a full segment editor — source and target side by side, exactly like Studio. Inline tags (x, g, bx, ex) are preserved character-for-character, and segment statuses (Translated, Approved, Locked, Draft) are respected. Export a return package or sdlxliff that Studio accepts without a warning.
Yes — sdltm files are read for exact and fuzzy matching, and sdltb termbases are enforced in every AI prompt, the same as Trados Studio's own matching.
Yes. Segments that contain inline tags are translated with the tags kept in the right place, so formatting such as bold text or links survives the round trip to Trados Studio.
Yes. Tracked changes in an SDLXLIFF are shown like in Trados Studio: deleted text is struck through, inserted text is underlined. Deleted text is not counted as part of the translation.
The QA Checker is a rule-based quality check for translations: SDL Trados files (SDLRPX, SDLPPX, SDLXLIFF), bilingual Word files, an original and its translation as two Word files, and PDF or scanned translations. It reports punctuation mismatches, tag errors, forbidden and missing terms, inconsistent translations, non-breaking spaces, numbers, placeholders, spelling and more. Open the QA Checker.
No. Every QA check is a fixed, deterministic rule that runs on our server. Your text, translation memory and termbase are never sent to an AI model or any third party.
One file: SDLRPX, SDLPPX, SDLXLIFF or a bilingual Word table (Trados bilingual review, memoQ, Phrase). Two files: an original and its translation as Word, PDF or scans/photos — paragraphs are paired automatically and scans are read with OCR. Translation memories: SDLTM and TMX. Termbases: SDLTB, TBX, XLSX and CSV (source, target, status).
Yes. Choose Two files and upload the original and the translation as Word files. Their paragraphs are paired automatically, also when a paragraph was split, merged or left out, and every check runs on each pair. Correct errors in the report and download the corrected Word file. Step-by-step guide.
Yes. Upload the translated PDF, scan or photo next to the original. Pages without a text layer are read with OCR, and the checks find wrong numbers, forbidden terms, missing sentences and punctuation errors. Export the issues to Excel or CSV and fix the document the PDF was made from. Read more.
Termbase entries marked forbidden or deprecated are reported as errors when they appear in the translation. If a source term occurs but none of its approved translations does, it is reported as a warning; inflected forms are recognised, but please verify.
Yes. Click Edit on any target in the QA report or in the search results, correct it and press Ctrl+Enter. For Trados files, tags stay protected, the segment is saved as approved and you download the corrected SDLXLIFF or SDLRPX return package. For Word translations the correction is written into the Word file. PDF and scanned translations can be checked and exported, but not edited.
Yes. The target language is detected from your file and checked with Hunspell dictionaries for more than 50 languages, on our own server. Names, codes and words that also appear in the source or termbase are ignored.
Yes. The Search segments tab has separate boxes for source and target, each with a does-not-contain option — for example source contains Admin and target does not contain Yönetici — plus match case, whole words, regular expressions and tag, status and QA-issue filters.
The first 10 text units (up to 100 words) are free, no credit card required. After that, translation costs $0.005 per word for every language pair and document type, and the exact price is shown before you confirm. Add balance in $10, $25, or $50 increments — there's no subscription, and unused balance never expires.
Yes — one account, one wallet. Balance you add works across every capability of Linigu Translator.
Payments are processed by Paddle on their own hosted checkout page — your card number never touches our servers. Balance is only ever credited from a signed confirmation Paddle sends directly to us, never from your browser.
No. Uploaded files, translation memories, and termbases are processed for your session only and deleted automatically after 48 hours. They are never used to train any model, ours or anyone else's.
48 hours from upload. You can re-download a finished translation from your dashboard any time within that window; after that it's deleted automatically. See the Privacy Policy for details.
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