Translation software

Desktop Products Comparison

Features SYSTRAN 7 Home Translator SYSTRAN 7 Office Translator SYSTRAN 7 Business Translator SYSTRAN 7 Premium Translator
Translate using SYSTRAN Interactive Translator
Translate selected text in any Windows application
Translate Web pages in Internet Explorer and Firefox
Translate Word documents
Translate OpenOffice documents    
Translate email in Outlook  
Translate PowerPoint presentations  
Translate Excel spreadsheets  
Translate PDF files*    
Translate Text, Word, RTF, PowerPoint, Excel, OpenOffice, HTML and PDF** files from Microsoft Windows Explorer or from a right-click popup menu using SYSTRAN Quick File Translator    
Adapt translation to your language domain(s) by automatically learning from your texts using SYSTRAN Customization Wizard
Build Translation Memories from translated documents using SYSTRAN Document Aligner      
Shortcut keys to translate selected text or a complete file, or to look up meanings for a term
Manage Translation Options and Application Settings in one dialog box for all installed SYSTRAN 7 products
Manage licenses for all installed SYSTRAN 7 products in one dialog box
Automatically translate text when typed
One-click lookup of source text terms
Automatically detect source file language
Automatically translate linked Web pages as you navigate (fluid navigation)
Spellcheck while translating
SYSTRAN Main Dictionary
SYSTRAN Business and Computer Science Domain Dictionaries*    
SYSTRAN Specialized Dictionaries*      
Side-by-Side Display Mode (Internet Explorer, Firefox)
Includes Larousse and SYSTRAN Dictionary for Lookup***
Alternative Meanings Dictionary*
Create and manage dictionaries using SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM):
• Develop customized dictionaries based on your company or domain terminology.
• Manage bilingual or multilingual user dictionaries
Basic Basic Business Premium
IntuitiveCoding™ of User Dictionary entries
Manage translation Projects using SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM):
• Display side-by-side source and target texts
• Use revision tools to customize translations and improve translation quality
• Translate DOC, RTF, TXT, HTML, XHTML, PDF*** files, and Web pages
• Proofread and post-edit
• Manage translation projects composed of multiple files in multiple formats
• Additional revision tools for improving source analysis
• Import and Export linguistic data
    Business Premium
Capabilities SYSTRAN 7 Home Translator SYSTRAN 7 Office Translator SYSTRAN 7 Business Translator SYSTRAN 7 Premium Translator
Document Size 2,000 words
Unlimited for Web
10,000 words
Unlimited for Web
Unlimited Unlimited
User Dictionary Size 500 500 2,000 20,000
User Dictionary Name Fixed Fixed Adjustable Adjustable
User Dictionary Type Bilingual Bilingual Bilingual Multilingual
Normalization Dictionary Size       20,000
Translation Memory Size     10,000 40,000
Number of UDs that can be loaded 1 1 10 10
Number of TMs that can be loaded     1 10
Number of NDs that can be loaded       10
Number of SYSTRAN Customization Wizard configurations 1 1 5 Unlimited

* May not apply to all language pairs.

** PDF translation does not support all PDF types (e.g. some PDF files that contain non-Western character sets, proprietary fonts, or PDF files generated from OCR. Note that a translated PDF is an editable RTF).

*** Only for French<>English, French<>Spanish, French<>Italian, French<>German, French<>Portuguese.