Technical Translation Services by People Who Speak Your Industry

Most technical translation projects range from $0.10 to $0.25 per word, depending on the language pair (Spanish costs less than Japanese), technical complexity, and file format. CAD drawings and scanned documents are typically quoted per drawing or per page rather than per word. Repeat clients pay less over time thanks to translation memory: sentences we've already translated for you are discounted on every future project. See our full pricing guide or request a free itemized quote; you'll have it within one business hour.

Three things: terminology, standards, and consequences. Technical documents rely on precise terms with exact meanings. A "casing" and a "housing" are different parts, and the wrong one sends a technician looking in the wrong place. They reference standards (ISO, DIN, ANSI, ASTM) that don't always have equivalents across markets. And the cost of an error isn't embarrassment. It's a safety incident, a failed audit, or a rejected bid. General translators produce fluent text; technical translators produce fluent text that is also technically correct.

Three safeguards on every project. First, your translator is matched to your discipline and has a verified technical background; you can read their profile before we start. Second, key terminology is locked in a glossary you approve before translation begins. Third, an independent reviser, a second specialist, checks the entire translation against the source, sentence by sentence, following the ISO 17100 TEP workflow. Errors that survive all three layers are rare; when one does, we fix it at our cost and update your glossary so it never recurs.

Yes. Our linguists are certified translators, many holding ATA certification or equivalent national credentials in their language pair, and all are vetted for technical subject-matter expertise on top of their linguistic qualifications. Techniwords itself is a member of the American Translators Association (ATA) and the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), and our workflow follows the ISO 17100 guidelines for translation services. You can review the profile of the translator assigned to your project (degrees, specializations, and track record) before we start. Meet our technical translators.

Yes, natively. We translate directly inside AutoCAD formats, preserving layers, blocks, dimensions, annotations, and title blocks. Your drafters receive DWG/DXF files they can open and edit immediately, not a spreadsheet of text strings to paste back in by hand. We also handle drawings exported to PDF, and can work from paper scans of legacy drawings when the originals are long gone. More on CAD drawing translation.

Yes. We provide certified translations with signed statements of accuracy, accepted by US courts, patent offices, licensing boards, and government agencies. Notarization is available on request. Certification is most often needed for patents, contracts, compliance submissions, and professional licensing of foreign-trained engineers. Learn about certified technical translation.

A specialized translator produces about 2,000–2,500 finished words per day, and independent revision adds roughly 30% to the schedule. A 10,000-word manual therefore takes about a week at standard pace. For urgent deadlines, our rush translation service can deliver up to 10,000 words in 24 hours using a coordinated team on a shared termbase, with a single reviser keeping everything consistent. Your quote always includes a committed delivery date, one we actually hit.

Never without telling you. Our standard service is 100% human translation by specialized linguists. When volume and budget call for it, we offer machine translation post-editing (MTPE): AI output fully re-worked, sentence by sentence, by a technical translator. MTPE costs 40–60% less and works well for internal documentation and lower-risk content, but we'll tell you honestly when a document shouldn't go near it, like safety warnings or anything with legal exposure. You always know exactly which workflow you're buying.

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF (including scanned documents), InDesign, FrameMaker, AutoCAD DWG/DXF, XML/DITA, and software resource files (JSON, XLIFF, .strings, .po). Desktop publishing is included where layout matters: you receive documents formatted like the originals, ready to publish or print, with expansion and contraction of the target language already accommodated in the layout.

NDAs are standard, ours or yours, and cover every translator, reviser, and project manager who touches your files. Transfers run through encrypted channels, access is limited to the assigned team, and files are deleted from working systems on request after delivery. For defense-related work, we can restrict projects to US-based, US-person linguists. If your compliance team has a vendor questionnaire, send it over; we've filled out longer ones.

Thirty-plus technical disciplines, with the deepest benches in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, energy and oil & gas, software and IT, medical devices, electronics and semiconductors, construction, and mechanical and electrical engineering. Each project is assigned to a translator who already works in that industry, which is why we maintain separate terminology databases per discipline rather than one big "technical" glossary. Browse all industries.

Yes. Multi-hundred-page manuals, full documentation libraries, and standing agreements with monthly volume are our core work. Large projects get a dedicated team (multiple translators, one reviser, one project manager), a shared termbase from day one, and staged deliveries so your team can start reviewing early chapters while later ones are still in progress. Your translation memory compounds across every project, cutting cost and turnaround a little more each time.

A good freelancer can be excellent for a single language pair and a steady, modest volume. A technical translation agency earns its keep when any of these apply: multiple languages, tight deadlines that need a team, file engineering (CAD, InDesign, XML), or the independent revision step that one person working alone simply cannot provide. There's also continuity: freelancers get sick, retire, and book up, while your translation memory and terminology stay with us across every project and every linguist. If you're weighing the options, our guide to hiring a technical translator covers both paths honestly.

Both directions, constantly. About half our work is US companies pushing documentation out to world markets: manuals into Spanish, tenders into Portuguese, specs into Chinese. The other half flows inward: German machinery documentation, Japanese supplier specs, or Korean process documents translated into clear American English for US technical teams. Inbound work is done by native English translators who read the source language and know the discipline, following the same matching rule as everything else we do.

We're headquartered in Texas and serve clients in all 50 states; the work itself is fully remote, on US business hours. Files move over encrypted channels, kickoff calls happen on your schedule, and you can reach us directly at info@techniwords.us or (346) 296-6516. If you're curious what we do most in your market, our city pages break down local industries and language demand.

Send us your files, or even a representative sample, through the quote form, or email info@techniwords.us. Within one business hour you'll receive an itemized quote with price, delivery date, and the profile of the translator we'd assign. No commitment, and your files are covered by confidentiality from the moment they reach us, quote accepted or not. Get your free quote.