Translated in context
Localizer captures the subject area, audience and tone of the whole document and does not translate sentence by sentence. Terms and references stay consistent across every page.
Features
Everything a good translation needs.
Localizer combines AI translation with what localisation professionals do as a matter of course: understand the context, keep to the terminology, ask when something is unclear and check the result. You set the scope and requirements and receive an editable file in the original format.
The result
A translation you can work with, instead of a raw draft to rework.
Revised and checked
You do not get a raw translation: language and style are revised, content and completeness are checked. Anything noteworthy is listed in the delivery report.
Back in the original format
You receive an editable file in the source format; depending on the format, formulas and technical elements stay protected. Text in images is not translated, and different text lengths may require layout rework.
You are in control
Terms, requirements and decisions stay in your hands.
Customer glossaries
Define which terms apply, which variants are allowed and what to avoid, with up to 100,000 terms per glossary.
EU terminology from IATE
When the option is offered with the quote, you can include terminology from the EU’s database. Your own requirements and your customer glossary take precedence.
Translation requirements
Define how Localizer handles forms of address, gender-inclusive language, numbers, units and dates, and software and UI terms.
Queries your way
Localizer resolves subject questions from the context or puts important decisions to you; a specialist can answer via a protected link. If a passage cannot be translated correctly without your input, we always ask.
Translate selectively
In multilingual documents, you choose which languages are translated. Everything else stays unchanged and serves as context.
Many languages, one order
One file into several languages or several files into one language: prepared together, released individually or together, and available as one ZIP at the end.
Day to day
From quote to correction in one place, for you and your team.
Price and deadline before you start
Your quote states a binding price and the delivery deadline. Translation only starts once you accept. If the deadline is exceeded, you can cancel free of charge until delivery.
Work as a team
Share orders with your team and maintain shared glossaries. History, queries and results stay with the order.
Progress at a glance
Processing runs in the background, even with the browser closed. You see the progress and are notified of queries and of the finished translation.
Corrections after delivery
Mark passages directly in the app. We fix deviations from your requirements free of charge; for change requests we quote a fixed price, and small ones are free of charge as a goodwill gesture within the first 30 days.
People, when it matters
Request specialist editing, certified translations, terminology work or foreign-language typesetting from zappmedia directly with the order. These services are agreed separately.
Help and support with the order
The built-in help and the help assistant answer questions about using the portal. Our support team can be reached directly from the order.
Use cases
What Localizer is best at
Localizer is built for business documents that need to be precise, consistent and available quickly in several languages.
- Technical textsManuals, instructions, maintenance and inspection documents, data sheets: lots of terminology, lots of repetition. With your glossary, every component has the same name in every document.
- Legal textsContracts, terms and conditions, policies and compliance documents, with consistent terminology and, optionally, official EU terminology from IATE.
- Institutional textsStatements, speeches, reports and information sheets from public authorities, associations, foundations and organisations, in respectful and accessible language.
- Product and marketing textsProduct information, catalogues, brochures, presentations and web copy, tailored to audience and tone and returned in the original layout.
- Editorial textsSpecialist articles, magazine features, commentaries and newsletters that read naturally in the target language.
- Corporate communicationCirculars, reports, minutes and training materials for teams in several locations, with consistent forms of address.
One tool for almost any format
Already today for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, typesetting files and web texts. Further format families are in preparation.
| Format family | Today | In preparation |
|---|---|---|
| Layout and typesetting | Adobe InDesign (IDML, ICML), Adobe FrameMaker (MIF) | – |
| Text documents | Word (DOCX), OpenDocument (ODT) | PDF, Word templates (DOTX) |
| Spreadsheets | Excel (XLSX), OpenDocument (ODS), CSV, TSV, fixed width | Excel templates (XLTX) |
| Presentations | PowerPoint (PPTX), OpenDocument (ODP) | Templates and slide shows (POTX, PPSX) |
| Web and text | HTML, XHTML, Markdown, TXT | JSON, YAML, XML, DocBook, DITA |
| Translation and subtitles | – | XLIFF 1.2 and 2.0, SDLXLIFF, TXML, TTX, SRT, VTT, TTML |
| Software and diagrams | – | PO, Java properties, RESX, Android and Apple strings, Qt TS, Visio (VSDX) |
We list formats in preparation without a date; they move to “Today” as soon as they are available.
Pre-editing: better source texts, better translations
On request, Localizer prepares your source text before translation. You choose how: correct errors only, or revise the text for a goal. Numbers, units, placeholders and links stay unchanged, and if you wish, you review every suggestion before translation starts.
Money-saving tip Fix errors and inaccuracies before they multiply in your translations. For orders in several languages, this pays off several times over.
Try it with your next document.
Upload, choose target languages, review the quote. Translation only starts once you accept the quote.