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| Name | MadCap Lingo | MateCat |
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| Most helpful review | Great tool, would recommend to all my colleagues, must have for Flare translation Lingo is a must have tool for the proper translation of MadCap Flare resources. Lingo packages content from any of the programs in the MadPak Suite into a Lingo project which can be exported into XLIFF files so you can translate the files in the CAT tool of your choice. Then you simply import the XLIFF back into Lingo and you can export back to Flare.
Lingo makes the process go very smoothly. Updates and project alignment are also handled very efficiently. 1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
Read more reviews → | A very promising CAT tool It is an outstanding CAT tool, I have worked with SDL, Fluency, OmegaT and other CAT tools and in most cases this one allows me to work faster using a much better quality automatic translation as a base for my work, I still have to learn more about it, but so far, even if it lacks of many features, looks like a very promising CAT tool.18 out of 18 found this review helpful.
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| Product description | MadCap Lingo is a translation management solution designed to assist technical writers, documentation specialists and professional translators in the translation and localization process.
Improve translation efficiency with a streamlined workflow using built-in Translation Memory technology (TMX support), detailed reporting capabilities, and advanced translation features such as alignment, termbases and more.
Learn more | MateCat is an enterprise-level, online CAT tool designed to make post-editing and outsourcing easy and to provide a complete set of features to manage and monitor translation projects.
Thanks to the integration of the largest collaborative translation memory and the best machine translation, you will always get from 10% to 20% more matches than with any other CAT tool and translate faster than ever.
MateCat is the only CAT tool that empowers you to accept all translation projects, even when your translators are busy or you do not cover one of the language pairs required by your client. Use Matecat to outsource your extra projects in one click and keep full control by monitoring real-time progress and translation quality in your dashboard.
You can use it for free at www.matecat.com |
| Price | $599.00 US | free |
| File formats | Microsoft® Word™ documents (no local install required) PowerPoint files Adobe® InDesign® XLIFF files HTM and HTML ResX files and much more! | 70 file format supported. Read more here |
| License type | Available as perpetual or time limited | Perpetual, open source |
| Operating system | Windows | Other, Windows, Android, Apple iOS, MacOS, Linux |
| System requirements | Intel Pentium 4 or better processor 4096 MB memory (RAM) 400 MB available hard drive space Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 4.0 - | Google Chrome 30, or higher (on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) Safari 1.7, or higher (on Mac OS X) |
| Compatibility | Supports standard file formats XLIFF, DITA, HTML, TMX, and TBX. Also all MadCap filetypes, SDLXLIFF, TTX, TXML, .resx, .doc, .docx, .ppt, .pptx, .fm, .book, .mif, idml, .dita, .htm, .rtf, .txt. | Supports for open standard file formats: XLIFF, TMX. Open API to connect to external applications (e.g. translation management systems) and machine translation systems. |
| Support and upgrades offered/included | Free updates, but not upgrades, Free community support, Installation support | N/A - Software is free, Free upgrades to all future versions, Free technical support via support ticket center, Free community support |
| Support and tutorial links | Product Overview
Tutorials | http://www.matecat.com/support/ |
| Free trial | No data | No data |
| Languages supported | Left to Right and Right to Left | 90 languages are supported. Read more here |
