SYSTRAN® Professional Standard 5.0 SYSTRAN® Standard offers high-quality bi-directional translations of English and from Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Other major features include handy MS Office integration and an easy to use stand-alone interface. With SYSTRAN Standard, you can even add your own terms to improve the accuracy of your translations to unprecedented levels. Please note Arabic version sold separately. See other versions of SYSTRAN

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Overview

Comparison Chart

Features	Standard	Premium
SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)	Advanced	Expert
Translation customization	User Dictionary	User Dictionary Translation Memory Normalization Dictionary
Terminology extraction	Basic	Expert
Access to SYSTRAN online dictionaries
Additional specialized terminology
User Dictionary Size	2,000	20,000
User Dictionary Type	Bilingual	Multilingual
Normalization Dictionary Size		20,000
Translation Memory Size		40,000
Improved Intuitive Coding
Coding confidence indicator
Print dictionaries
User Dictionary format
Improved User Dictionary search capabilities
Multilingual dictionary y editor
Domain definition
Expert Coding wizard
Reverse dictionaries
Detect duplicate entries
Support for Translation Memory and Normalization Dictionaries
Import/export t of Translation Memories to TMX format
Entity coding
SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM)	Advanced	Expert
Side-by-side alignment
Interaction with SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager
Define words not to be translated
Import TXT, RTF, DOC and HTML files
Online document support
HTML editing
Import/export TMX files
Translation review tool
Source text linguistic enrichment

SYSTRAN Standard 5.0 Features

Graphical User Interface (GUI) components

We only list the features specific to the components. Size limitations depend on the product and component and are listed separately.

Supported formats depend on the component

The SYSTRAN Toolbar interface now includes two drop-down lists (1 for source and 1 for target) instead of only one (for the language pair i.e. both source and target). The target languages are adapted automatically depending on the source language.

SYSTRAN Clipboard Taskbar (SCT)

SCT translates any written text, once it has been copied to the Windows Clipboard.

• Active Clipboard: automatic translation of the Clipboard’s content without any click on the translate button
• Maintains document formatting whenever possible (depends on the application in which it is used)
• NEW: Cross-application support (i.e. possibility to copy text from one application, translate it and paste it to another application).

SYSTRAN Toolbar

Common features

• Seamless translation (because it is seamlessly integrated into the application as a plugin)
• Preserve document formatting
• Translation of the whole document

Internet Explorer plugin

• NEW: Fluid navigation: enables automatic translation of all links located on a Web page, once the Web page has been translated (the translate button remains pushed down to indicate that). An option is available for choosing the fluid navigation mode: enabled for all links, disabled for all links, enabled for links only within the same domain as the current page.
• NEW: Possibility to alternate between source and target documents, at any time.

Comments : Unless there is a good technical reason for the domain restriction in fluid navigation, the restriction should be removed or at least become an option. It will be possible to disable fluid navigation.

Microsoft Word plugin

• NEW: Translation of the entire document with the “translate” button, or only of the selected text through the contextual menu (V4 did both with the “translate” button). Translation of selected text can now be either insert or replace (V4 behavior was “replace”).
• NEW: Extended alignment is now available as an option. It offers side-by-side display of source and translated documents with sentence alignment (i.e. when highlighting a sentence in the source document, the translated sentence is highlighted, and vice-versa) and advanced markup.
• NEW: contextual menu (with right-click) that offers the possibility to access SYSTRAN features such as sending the word or expression to SDM (if SDM is installed), or define DNT blocks.
• Supports document sublanguages: if a document contains several languages, only the parts with the appropriate language will be translated.

Microsoft Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint plugins

Nothing specific except PowerPoint, where part of the document can be translated (same behavior as Word).

Comments: The Outlook plugin is NOT for Outlook Express but for the full-fledged Outlook which is part of the Microsoft Office suite.

Limitations

• The toolbar for Office 97 will not evolve from V4. A user with V5 and Office 97 will not see any difference with V4.
• No plugin for Outlook 97 (same as in V4).

PDF Translator

PDF support will be provided using Scansoft’s PDF Converter. Translates PDF documents and displays the translation in Microsoft Word. Scansoft provide an item in the contextual menu (right-click), we will probably provide do the same. So when right-clicking on a PDF the user will open it in Word (convert PDF to RTF) and then use the Word plugin to translate that PDF.

Comments: We do not support PDF Converter 2.0.

We will have the same restrictions as Scansoft’s PDF Converter (i.e. support of simple types of PDF).

PDF can be imported in Word or STPM, and also translated in IE or SMTU.

SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)

Level 1 features

• NEW: Improved Intuitive Coding
• Better analysis of plain entries (those without linguistic clues)
• New linguistic clues
• Support of special characters
• Expert dictionary coding capabilities (through clues only; no Wizard)
• Bilingual dictionary editor restricted to only one UD, the name of which is not customizable.
• Coding confidence indicator: visually indicates how confident the system is in its automatic analysis and coding of the entry. Low confidence does not mean the entry is incorrect but that it is more likely to be incorrect than one with a higher confidence.

SDM is limited to the edition of ONE UD per monodirectional LP, the name of which is not defined.

Level 2 features

The following features are available, in addition to the Level 1 features of SDM:

• Bilingual dictionary editor for as many UDs as desired, with options and properties.
• NEW: Print dictionaries
• NEW: New UD format and conversion of V4 format to V5 format.
• NEW: Tip of the day
• NEW: Improved UD search capabilities
• Search local dictionaries
• Search, browse and download SYSTRAN Online User Dictionaries

Level 3 features

The following features are available, in addition to the Level 1&2 features of SDM:

• Multilingual dictionary editor.
• Import/export text and Excel dictionaries.
• NEW: Support of large UDs (much larger than in V4).
• NEW: XML MultitermiX import
• Domain definition with both SYSTRAN’s predefined domains and user-defined domains.
• NEW: Expert Coding Wizard that allows the user to visualize and modify SYSTRAN’s analysis of the entries, for optimal dictionary usage and coverage.
• NEW: Possibility to reverse dictionaries: UD typically had only one source language and several targets. It is now possible to define several source languages.
• NEW: Detection of duplicate entries (equivalent source and same domain)
• NEW: New dictionary types
• Translation memory for complete sentences (up to 40,000 per TM dictionary)
• Normalization dictionaries: perfect to handle abbreviations such as those used for chat (it is possible to define that “4u” means “for you”, which allows SYSTRAN to translate this otherwise obscure term), or to normalize spelling (if your company always writes “plugin” as one word and not as “plug-in”, etc.)
• NEW: Import/export of Translation Memories to TMX format (Trados’ XML TM format)
• NEW: Entity coding (which corresponds to the internal name “lookup operators”): it allows the user to define and use “variables” in your dictionary entries such as “an IP address”, or “a version number”. Provided with predefined entities.

Comments: Lookup operators are used in a regular UD and are either typed like “*<NUMBER>”, or using a drop-down list. A menu option allows to switch between an icon display and a textual display.

SYSTRAN Translation Project Manager (STPM)

Level 1 features

• Side-by-side comparison and alignment of source and translated documents
• Interaction with SDM to build and validate a User Dictionary from STPM
• Definition of Do Not Translate (DNT) blocks
• NEW: Tip of the day
• NEW: Import of TXT, RTF, DOC, HTML documents (HTML was not supported in V4).
• NEW: Possibility to open an online document by providing its Web address (URL)
• NEW: HTML editing and formatting capabilities

Comments: We talk about “import” not support because the only native format in STPM is the “.stp”.

Level 2 features

The following features are available, in addition to the Level 1 features of STPM:

• NEW: Import/export of TMX (the format is not preserved; to preserve the format use SMTU).
• NEW: Translation review tool (post-edition), and interaction with SYSTRAN’s Translation Memory (post-edited sentences are candidate for integration into the TM)
• NEW: Source text linguistic enrichment (capability to add information in order to improve the translation; for example force a certain term category in the text, when there are ambiguities such as in “Contact SYSTRAN” where “Contact” can be analyzed as either a noun or a verb).

System requirements

Comments:

RAM and disk space will need to be validated during tests. Also exactly which products require Office, whether it is ALL office or only Word.

Certain features, in particular UD compilation will depend on available RAM (the larger the UD, the more RAM is needed) and CPU.

Translation speed is proportional to CPU speed (ie translation on 1GHz is twice as fast as on a 500MHz).

Windows 98 support has been dropped by Microsoft as of December 2003.

Office 97 support is kept even if does not change for V4, mostly for physical distribution needs in France (impossible to reference 2 versions). As of March 2003, Gartner estimated Office 97 deployment to 30%.

Pricing & Availability

SYSTRAN Professional Standard 5.0

European Pack: English into/from Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Russian

Asian Pack: English into/from Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese

Arabic Pack: English into/from Arabic

Global Pack: European and Asian Packs

We stock SYSTRAN products for immediate delivery.

Upgrades

Please include your serial # inside comments box with order of any upgrade

Site License

Upgrade from version 4.0 to 5.0: 30% of the total license fee

To buy licenses for several computers or for more configurations, please contact us.

Downloads, Patches & Updates

• SYSTRAN 5.0 User Guide (PDF)

To download any of the SYSTRAN updates and patches, please go to our downloads page.

• SYSTRAN 4.0 Dictionary Update 3.0
• SYSTRAN 4.0 Dictionary Update 4.0
• SYSTRAN 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer plugin patch
• SYSTRAN Pro Premium 3.0 Microsoft Office XP support
• SYSTRAN Professional 3.0 updated filters