Here you will find a list of Free Translation Tools & Resources such as translation software, free online translation engines, multilingual dictionaries, localization tools etc.
Most of these resources are free, or at least allow you to get a free online translation for short texts.
Please note these free translation tools are ideal for getting the gist of the text you want to translate. If you need a professional translation ask a skilled expert!
Translation is still very much of a "cottage industry". There are more than 10,000 translation companies worldwide, and listing and reviewing translation providers would have been an endless task. This is why you will not find information about translation vendors here.
Please note I regularily update the list of links as I come across new resources and technologies.
Feel welcome to contact me for free, bespoke info or advice or if you notice a dead link.
Pierre
All Free Resources
a wealth of online free multilingual resources
Online machine translation, software, dictionaries, tips and articles
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- Dicts
- All free multilingual dictionaries
- Free2Professional Translation
- Free translation of web sites and text for Spanish, French, and German to English and English to Spanish, French and German, Italian and Portuguese.
- Web-a-dex
- Links to on-line translators, list of resources.
- Babelfish
- Translates text and web pages from one language to another, including English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.
- Translator Online
- Links to general and specialized free translation websites.
- ForeignWord
- Links to machine translation systems. Translate your texts simultaneously, compare the results and select the one that best suits your needs.
- WebTrance
- Translation from English to Bulgarian of strings less than 500 characters.
- ApniUrdu
- Translates English sentences to Urdu in Unicode or PNG format. Support for tenses but not for questions.
- PROMT Online
- Translation of text pages between English and Russian, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
- ToggleText
- Machine translation using the Kataku system, and human translation, in English and Indonesian.
- Verbalis
- Example and analogy based machine translation in German and English. Suitable for large technical texts.
- Khobragade
- Translates Bahasha Indonesia texts into English.
- Transductor Engine
- Dictionary for English and French with fuzzy matching of entries.
- IBM alphaWorks
- Translate web pages between English and Chinese Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Korean.
- IMTranslator
- Free translation online and option to buy the software. English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
- Pars Translator
- Machine translation from English to Farsi in 33 fields of science. Also limited free online translation.
- Laurie's Links
- A variety of machine translation links from Machine Translation News International, compiled by Laurie Gerber.
- MaximumEdge
- Bidirectional text translation between English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- ReTranslator
- Useful interface for checking the quality of Babelfish translation because the English text you type is translated via a foreign language back to English.
- Google Language Tools
- Translation of text and web pages between English and Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
- Angala Hindi
- Translation of text between English and Hindi.
- Systran
- Translates text (up to 150 words) or web pages between English and Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
- InterTran
- Translate single words, phrases, sentences and entire web pages between 1,600 language pairs.
- PROMT
- Translation of text pages between English and Russian, German, French, Spanish and Italian.
- Reverso
- Translation of text and web pages between English and French, German and Spanish.
- Wordfast
- Wordfast is a Translation Memory engine and real-time glossary available for Microsoft Word on PC and Mac.
- Eurodicautom
- European Union terminology. Available on most European Union languages.
- Translators on Frappr!
- This global Frappr! map allows professional freelance translators and translation agencies to gain instant exposure while easily finding other translation resources worldwide.
- Lookwayup, free online dictionary
- LookWAYup combines a multilingual dictionary, thesaurus, translation, and other handy tools. Don't worry about spelling, this dictionary fixes it.
- IM Translator
- Offers free online translation as well as dictionaries, spell-checkers, virtual keyboard etc.
- Suparsit
- "The English-to-Thai computer-based translation service on the Internet".
- Cucumis Free Online Translation Service
- Cucumis is a community of translators who share their linguistic knowledge and help each other online.
- Babelplex
- Google Bilingual Search, mainly from or into English
- Troodle
- Search engine for Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias and Translation Tools
