Document Translation Glossary

Layout preservation: Keeping the original visual structure (tables, images, spacing, page breaks).

OCR (Optical Character Recognition): Extracting text from scanned or image‑based documents.

Table fidelity: Keeping rows, columns, and borders aligned after translation.

Pagination: Page breaks and page order in a document.

DOCX: Microsoft Word document format.

XLSX: Microsoft Excel spreadsheet format.

PPTX: Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format.

PDF (native): A PDF with selectable text (not scanned).

PDF (scanned): A PDF that contains images of text; requires OCR.

Translation memory (TM): A database of previously translated segments for consistency.

Terminology management: Controlling preferred terms in translation.

Language pair: Source language → target language.

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