User manuals, machine documentation, specifications and safety data sheets translated with the terminology fixed and the layout intact — for manufacturers, importers and engineering teams working across languages.
Technical translation in India runs mostly in two directions: imported machinery arriving with German, Japanese, Korean or Chinese documentation that the people operating it cannot read, and Indian-built products going out to markets that require documentation in the local language before anything can be sold there.
We handle both — terminology fixed in a glossary agreed before translation starts, and files returned in the layout they arrived in, with figures, callouts, tables and warnings where the original put them. ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 17100:2015 certified, working with manufacturing and engineering teams in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Bangalore, Punjab and Gujarat, and with plants across the rest of India.
The manual someone actually uses standing at the machine. Warnings, sequences and part names have to match the equipment and the labels on it — a manual that disagrees with the control panel in front of the operator is worse than no manual.
Japanese, Korean, German and Chinese documentation rendered into English or Hindi for the team running the line, fault code tables and maintenance schedules included, so the plant is not dependent on whoever happens to read the language.
Figures, tolerances, units and part numbers are treated as untouchable and verified separately from the text around them. Everything else can be rewritten; these cannot.
SDS sections, hazard and precautionary statements and handling instructions, kept in the standard section order so the document stays recognisable to anyone who has to check or act on it.
We go through the file set, agree the terms for recurring parts, controls and warnings, and lock them before translation begins. This is what keeps page 4 and page 240 calling the same component by the same name.
Assigned by subject — machinery, electronics, automotive, chemical — because terminology that sounds plausible but is wrong is the hardest error to catch downstream, and the most expensive on a shop floor.
Callouts, captions, tables and cross-references go back where they belong, and text that expands in translation is fitted rather than left to overflow the frame it sits in.
A review pass against the source document, then delivery in the working format you sent us rather than as a flat file you have to rebuild yourself.
Manuals get read under pressure, by someone with a machine in front of them. Three things follow from that.
A component called three different things across a 200-page manual costs the reader time at exactly the moment they do not have any. Terminology is agreed once and applied everywhere, including revisions issued months later.
A callout pointing at the wrong part, a warning that has drifted onto the following page, a table that lost its header row — the words can be flawless and the page still unusable.
Machinery placed on the EU market has to be supplied with instructions in the official language of the country it is sold in, with the translation accompanied by the original instructions. Comparable rules apply to safety information in most export markets — cheaper to check before the shipment than after.
Documentation arriving with imported equipment, and Indian technical documentation going out to export markets.
Yes — that is part of the job rather than an extra. Callouts, tables, captions and cross-references are rebuilt around the translated text, and expansion is fitted to the frame. Send the editable source file where you have one; working from a flat PDF means the layout has to be reconstructed, which takes longer.
A glossary is agreed before translation starts and applied across the whole set, then kept for later revisions so an update issued next year matches the manual already on the floor. For long documents this matters more than the elegance of any individual sentence.
Yes — interface strings, error messages, help documentation and release notes. Interface text is translated with its length constraints in mind, since a label that is correct but three times too long simply breaks the screen it appears on.
Yes. Safety data sheets, hazard and precautionary statements, safety instructions and CE-related documentation are translated in the section structure the destination market expects, so the checker reading it finds each part where it should be.
For the EU, machinery must carry instructions in the official language of the member state where it is sold, and a translated manual must travel with the original instructions. Other markets set their own rules. Tell us where the product is going and we will tell you what the documentation has to cover.
We look at the whole file set first — text volume, repetition, number of figures and the format it is in — and come back with a fixed quote and a delivery schedule. Long manuals can be delivered in agreed stages when a launch or installation date is driving the timeline.