ranslation Process

Professional, quality translation work requires many steps:

1. Receipt of your quotation request
2. Analysis of the documents to be translated
3. Presentation of the quote
4. Clarification of your desires and needs, if necessary
5. Reception of your signed order form
6. Linguistic, encyclopedic and terminological research
7. Production of a first version (communication with your contact person, if necessary)
8. Quality control 1 (accuracy of translation, terminology, spelling, syntax, etc.)
9. Corrections and adaptation
10. Quality control 2 (idem)
11. Last modifications - Final version
12. Formatting
13. Delivery of the end product

Scriptorium Claude Provencher utilizes the following resources, among others:

• Electronic Resources:
  
  • Pentium IV, high-speed modem, scanner, printer, fax machine
  • Windows XP
  • Office 2000
  • Acrobat
  • PageMaker
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Internet Explorer
  • Outlook
  • Copernic Agent



• Linguistic and Terminological Resources:
  
  • TERMIUM (Database of the Canadian government "Bureau de la traduction")
  • "Grand dictionnaire terminologique" ("Office québécois de la langue française")
  • "Antidote" (spell and grammar checker)
  li>"Dictionnaire Le Robert" (CD-ROM)
  • "Dictionnaire de l’Académie française" – On Line
  • "Thésaurus de la langue française" - Larousse
  • "Le Multidictionnaire"
  • "Le Bon Usage" - Grevisse
  • "Le Colpron" - Cooccurrence Dictionary
  • "Le Ramat" - Typographical Reference
  • "Le Grand Robert & Collins" - French-English - English-French (CD-ROM)
  • "Guide anglais-français de la traduction" - R. Meertens
  • Longman Contemporary English Dictionary (CD-ROM)
  • Webster's Thesaurus
  • Collins German Dictionary - German-Englisch - Englisch-German
  • DWDS – "Digital Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache des 20. Jahrhunderts"
  • "Deutsches Universal Wörterbuch" – Duden
  • "Sachs-Villatte Langenscheidts Großwörterbuch" – German-French
  • Larousse bilingual Dictionary - German-French - French-German
  • "Wortschatz Lexikon" (Lexicon of the University of Leipzig) - On Line
  • Specialised terminological databases
  • Other dictionaries on CD-ROM or paper.

See also Links.