The Literary and Technical Version is the reproduction of a text written in the Portuguese language into any other foreign Language, expressing accurately the original text. The version is performed by a trained translator with expertise in the field of the document, usually performed by a professional who was born in the language’s country of origin. If required, it may go through a process of graphical editing, in which the document is subject to a layout development and returned exactly according to the original document.
It is common to have many doubts about translation services. For this reason, we are answering the most frequent questions. See below:
Free/ Simple/ Technical Translation is the translation for non-official purposes. This translation cannot be used before public departments and it does not produce effects against third parties in lawsuits. It may be translated by an official translator or nor, but should be delivered in a common paper or electronic means.
Sworn Translation is considered an official document with public faith. It means that this translation has the same value as the original document in a foreign language, producing effects before public departments in the entire national territory. It also can be used for legal purposes. This is the translation made exclusively by a Public Translator, also known as Sworn Translator, authorized by the Trade Board of the respective State and delivered in an official paper with their stamp and signature.
In relation to the quality, Free/ Simple/ Technical Translation and Sworn Translation are equivalent and, at World Translation, are usually executed by the same translator. However, only the sworn translation is valid for official purposes, similarly with reprographic copies (Xerox): Simple copies and certified copies are identical, but only the latter is applied to official purposes due to public faith.
It is the most common unit for calculating the translation volume. In some companies, it is possible to find standard pages with 1250 characters with space or 1000 characters with space. At World Translations, the projects are calculated based on a standard page with 160 words. However, World Translations may provide its quote based on other parameters to make easy the comparison.
The sworn translation has a fixed price by the Trade Board of the State, but our prices are below the Trade Board’s threshold in some languages, for example. For this, World Translations ensures the best quality and the best presentation. For Free/ Simple/ Technical Translation and other services, we have a different pricing policy, according to the volume.
We send the best efforts to make the translation delivered within a proper time for your clients’ needs.
You can send and receive your documents by e-mail, post office (Sedex) or holder. In the case of sworn translation that requires the original document stamped by the translator, we can advance the translation based on copies sent by fax or email. When taking the translation, you should bring the original documents to be conferred and stamped. Therefore, you will only need to move once. Contact us. We will happy to find the most proper way to save time and money on transporting documents for translation.
World Translations has professionals carefully selected that work with us for several years in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese languages, among others. For other languages, World Translations has a partnership with the best professionals of the market, saving your precious time and offering in a single company a full solution for your needs of translation. World Translations takes over the responsibility for all its projects of free translation or sworn translation.
1) Free and sworn translation in any combination among Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Chinese languages.
2) Layout Development and Editing of Graphs and Images in the main formats, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PageMaker, FrameMaker, Corel, Html, and PDF. In addition, we transform manually your PDF in an editable file, keeping it as close as possible to the original, in any of the formats above. Ask us! Subtitling service of advertising, institutional, didactic and academic videos.
For confidentiality reasons, we do not disclose our clients’ projects. If you still do not know the quality of our work, please contact us. We will be happy to send you a small sample of our work. You can send us a small text of your field of operation and we will provide the translation and/ or editing WITHOUT EXTRA FEE. The quality assurance of our work is the competence of our professionals, our constant pursuit for improvement of our processes and the customer service.
No. World Translations does not use any computing program for translations. Our translations are performed by translators who study many years and keep studying to improve their techniques and skills. No computing program will ever replace the talent and the capacity of understanding of the human being. The computing resources used by World Translations only aim at ensuring the best rate of possible corrections in segments that there is the possibility, even reduced, of human failure, e.g., spelling correction, research, terminology and stylistic consistency, conference, in which are the essential items to sworn translation.
Yes. You will receive your translation with all the graphs and images already translated in the same format as the original file. World Translations has many professionals with years of experience in layout development/ text formatting in the most several software applications. Here, at World Translations, there is no work for you or the cost of layout development of the text translated.
