Data & File Preparation: The Foundation of Quality

Before design or translation begins, your source files need proper preparation. This foundational step is critical for smooth, efficient workflow. Our Data and File Preparation service ensures files are clean, optimized, and ready for the next phase.

We meticulously review and clean source documents, resolving issues that could interfere with translation, formatting, or final output. This includes identifying corrupt fonts, fixing broken links, organizing file structures, and ensuring all text is editable. We analyze files in InDesign, FrameMaker, Word, or other formats, checking for missing images, non-standard fonts, and incorrectly embedded graphics.

For example, if text exists within a flattened image, it becomes untranslatable. Our team identifies this, extracts the text if possible, or flags it for recreation. This proactive approach saves time and prevents errors during translation and localization, streamlining the entire DTP process and reducing turnaround times.

Our data preparation specialists work with virtually every file format used in professional publishing. From legacy formats like PageMaker and QuarkXPress to modern cloud-based applications, we have the tools and expertise to handle it all. We also standardize naming conventions, organize asset folders, and create backup systems to protect your valuable content throughout the project lifecycle.

Investing in professional data preparation pays dividends throughout your project. Clean, well-structured files are easier for translators to work with, which can lower translation costs and improve accuracy.

OCR Conversion: Unlocking Your Content

Our OCR Conversion service transforms static PDFs into fully editable Microsoft Word documents, unlocking your content for easy updates and translation.

OCR technology scans document images and identifies characters, converting them into machine-encoded text. However, automated tools often produce jumbled formatting and incorrect character recognition. Our DTP specialists meticulously compare the generated Word document against the original PDF, line by line, correcting character errors, reformatting tables, re-inserting images, and ensuring headers, footers, and page numbers are perfectly replicated.

We preserve the original layout, whether your PDF contains complex tables, multi-column layouts, or intricate graphics, creating a Word document that is a faithful, editable replica ready for immediate use.

The quality of OCR results depends heavily on the source document. Scanned documents with poor resolution, faded text, or unusual fonts present challenges that automated tools cannot overcome. Our experienced team applies manual corrections and uses advanced techniques to achieve the highest possible accuracy.

Beyond simple conversion, our OCR service includes intelligent formatting reconstruction. We don't just extract text; we rebuild the document's structure, applying appropriate styles for headings, body text, captions, and lists. This makes the converted document immediately usable for your team.

Formatting & File Conversion: Ensuring Cross-Platform Consistency

When moving content between formats or platforms, professional Formatting & File Conversion ensures your document's design and structure remain intact.

Simple "Save As" functions rarely work with complex documents, often resulting in lost formatting and shifted images. Our DTP specialists are experts in Adobe InDesign, FrameMaker, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and Microsoft Office Suite. We manually reconstruct documents in the target format, handling font mapping, style sheet recreation, image relinking, and layout adjustments to deliver files that are clean, stable, and easy to work with.

Different software applications handle elements like text flow, image positioning, and color management in unique ways. What looks perfect in one program may appear completely different when opened in another. Our conversion specialists understand these technical nuances and apply the necessary adjustments to ensure visual consistency across platforms.

We frequently handle conversions between proprietary and open formats, helping businesses move away from outdated software or adopt new publishing platforms. Whether you're migrating an entire document library to a modern system or converting individual files for specific projects, our file conversion service ensures nothing is lost in translation.

Template & Stylesheet Design: The Blueprint for Brand Consistency

Our Template & Stylesheet Design service provides the framework to ensure every document is professional, on-brand, and consistent.

Templates and stylesheets act as powerful blueprints, allowing teams to create new documents quickly without formatting concerns. Our DTP experts work with you to understand your brand guidelines and design custom templates in Word, InDesign, or FrameMaker.

We create clear visual hierarchies and define styles for every element. Using proper heading styles is crucial for generating automated tables of contents and creating accessible documents. Professional templates empower your team to create high-quality, consistent documents with ease.

A well-designed template system does more than enforce visual consistency, it dramatically improves productivity. When your team members spend less time formatting and more time focusing on content, project timelines shrink and quality improves. Templates also reduce the learning curve for new employees.

Our template design process begins with a thorough analysis of your existing documents and brand standards. We identify common elements, establish design patterns, and create modular components that can be mixed and matched for different document types.

Multilingual & Bidirectional Typesetting: Adapting to a Global Audience

Multilingual Typesetting adapts formatted text to fit original layouts, accounting for language-specific rules. German text can be 30% longer than English, while Asian languages are more compact. Our specialists skillfully adjust layouts to accommodate text expansion or contraction, ensuring documents remain balanced and readable.

Typesetting for bidirectional languages like Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi requires specialized skills. These scripts read right to left, requiring entire document layouts to be mirrored. Our team has extensive experience ensuring not only body text flows correctly, but also that mixed-direction text displays properly, guaranteeing flawless products for Middle Eastern and North African audiences.

Each language has unique typographic conventions that must be respected for professional results. French requires specific spacing around punctuation marks, Japanese text may use vertical or horizontal orientation, and Chinese typography has strict rules about line breaking and character spacing. Our multilingual DTP specialists are trained in these conventions and apply them consistently.

Font selection for multilingual documents requires careful consideration. Not all fonts support all languages, and character rendering can vary significantly between typefaces. We select appropriate fonts that maintain readability while preserving your brand's visual identity across languages.

Our bidirectional typesetting service handles the complex challenges of RTL languages with precision. Beyond simply flipping layouts, we ensure that tables read correctly, charts and diagrams flow naturally, and numbered lists follow proper RTL conventions.

Design & Layout Production: Bringing Your Vision to Life

Our Design & Layout Production service covers all needs, from marketing brochures to 500-page technical manuals. We combine creative design with technical precision to produce documents that are both beautiful and functional.

We specialize in creating brochures, annual reports, technical manuals, e-books, presentations, and training materials. Using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, we build visually engaging, easy-to-navigate layouts with clear information hierarchies.

Great design balances aesthetics and functionality. Our layouts are designed with end-users in mind, ensuring final designs reflect your brand's quality while achieving communication objectives.

Our design process is collaborative and iterative. We begin by understanding your goals, target audience, and key messages. Our designers then develop concepts that align with your brand while pushing creative boundaries. Through rounds of review and refinement, we arrive at designs that exceed expectations.

For technical documentation, we excel at making complex information accessible. Strategic use of white space, clear headings, informative diagrams, and logical page flow help readers find and understand information quickly. We apply information design principles to ensure your technical content communicates effectively.

Marketing materials require a different approach, one focused on visual impact and persuasion. Our design team creates compelling layouts that capture attention, communicate value propositions, and drive action.

Image & Graphic Editing: Perfecting Your Visuals

Our Image & Graphic Editing service ensures every picture, chart, and diagram is crisp, clear, and culturally appropriate.

We handle everything from retouching photos to extracting and translating text embedded within images. Image localization is critical, we help source culturally suitable replacement images or edit existing ones to resonate with target audiences.

Professional image editing involves far more than basic photo retouching. We optimize images for their intended use, whether print or digital. Color correction ensures consistency across all visuals, while resolution optimization balances quality with file size. We remove backgrounds, create clipping paths, and composite images to create exactly the visual effect you need.

Graphics localization extends beyond language translation. Cultural symbols, gestures, and imagery carry different meanings in different markets. An image that communicates effectively in one culture might confuse or offend in another. Our localization experts review all visuals for cultural appropriateness and suggest alternatives when necessary.

Our image editing service includes creating variations of images for different formats and platforms. A single master image might need versions optimized for print, web, social media, and mobile applications.

Localization/Translation Integration: A Seamless Workflow

Our DTP services work hand-in-hand with translation. We understand localization's technical requirements and manage translation integration into designed files, ensuring seamless workflow from start to finish.

After content translation, we expertly flow translated text into source files, meticulously adjusting layouts to accommodate text length changes. We re-link graphics, regenerate tables of contents and indexes, and update cross-references, ensuring documents are fully functional and perfectly polished.

The integration of translation and DTP is where many projects encounter problems. Text expansion in languages like German or Russian can break carefully designed layouts. Character encoding issues can corrupt special characters. Our specialists anticipate and prevent these problems through proper planning and execution.

We work directly with translation memory systems and localization platforms, understanding their technical requirements and output formats. This allows us to create source files that are optimized for translation, with properly tagged content and separated translatable and non-translatable elements.

Our localization integration service is designed for efficiency at scale. Whether you're localizing a single document into two languages or managing hundreds of documents across dozens of languages, we have the processes and technology to handle it smoothly.

Quality Assurance: The Final Polish

Our rigorous Quality Assurance process is our guarantee that final deliverables are perfect. QA specialists perform side-by-side comparisons against originals, following comprehensive checklists covering layout, content integrity, typographical errors, language-specific conventions, and functionality.

This detailed review ensures documents are error-free and ready for publication, the final polish that elevates good documents to great ones.

Quality assurance is not just proofreading, it's a systematic verification of every aspect of the document. Our QA specialists are trained to spot issues that others might miss: inconsistent spacing, orphaned headings, incorrect hyphenation, missing graphics, and broken links.

We employ both automated and manual QA techniques. Automated tools scan for technical issues like missing fonts, low-resolution images, and color space problems. Manual review catches contextual issues that software cannot detect.

For multilingual projects, our QA process includes language-specific checks performed by native speakers. They verify that translations read naturally and that cultural adaptations are appropriate.