Multilingual e-mails and electronic documents present a significant challenge within electronic discovery and a dilemma to many legal teams as they undertake document review for their clients - what do we do with these foreign language files?
Professional certified translation is cumbersome within it's high cost and slow turnaround time.
Finding bilingual experienced reviewers can prove to be very difficult.
Automated machine translation, however, provides a valuable solution with greater speed and lower costs that allow review teams to refine the multilingual documents to a more manageable subset through the exclusiion of non-responsive files. This advanced technology converts foreign languages to English - and visa versa - with impressive accuracy that enables quick understanding of the original documents.
Global EDD Group provides automated machine translation services that convert the following language to/from English:
Supported File Types: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, TXT, HTML, RTF, PDF and OpenOffice (ODT, ODS, ODP).
Global EDD Group also develops hybrid machine translation solutions that leverage the power of Google Translate to identify and translate multilingual documents. Google Translate currently supports 57 languages:
The conversion of image-based document files (TIFFs and PDFs) iinto editable and searchable electronic files requires specialized Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software that is widely available within the marketplace. However, the majority of these products are geared towards the English language and fail to produce quality results with Asian, Latin and Cyrillic languages that are composed of unique accents or characters.
In the computer world, these characters sets are handled under the Unicode standard that "provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language." The latest version of the Unicode standard represents over 109,000 characters from over 90 languages, which obvious represents a significant challenge to OCR tools that have been geared toward the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
Global EDD Group has invested in specialized OCR tools that accept the Unicode standard and create editable and searchable electronic files for languages from around the world. Additionallly, a subset of languages can receive Enhanced OCR Processing that includes dictionary lookups, format retention and image enhancement. The following are typical service options available, though some may not be available for every language.
INPUT FORMATS: Scanned Paper Documents (TIFF, PDF) or Digital Photographs (JPG)
OUTPUT FORMATS: Text Files (TXT), Documents (DOC), Spreadsheets (XLS), Web Page (HTML)
ENHANCED OCR AVAILABLE:
STANDARD OCR LANGUAGES:
