Author: Yuri Tsverkun
Founder at OCR Craft
Over 15 Years of Experience in the Translation Industry

We’ve all been there: the translation is linguistically perfect, but the moment you export it from the CAT tool, the document “breaks.” Post-export issues can turn a straightforward delivery into hours of cleanup.

Even when working with editable files, problems may still pop up: text spills out of narrow columns, tables of contents need manual updates, and mishandled tags can strip formatting like italics and bold or even drop footnotes and images entirely.

Eliminating the Post-Export Burden

To reduce your workload, we’re launching our Post-Translation Layout Check. This feature applies only to editable source files and is not a replacement for PDF-to-DOC conversion used with CAT tools.

Here is exactly how we handle the “heavy lifting” for you:

  • Completeness Verification: We ensure every text segment, footnote, and caption is present in the final document.
  • Formatting Restoration: We fix font inconsistencies, broken indents, and distorted tables.
  • Structural Synchronization: We update the table of contents, re-sort indexes to match the target alphabet, and verify headers/footers.
  • Tag & Element Integrity: We audit hyperlinks, internal references, and embedded media elements to ensure they render correctly in their native formats.

The result is a structured, client-ready file.

Pro-Tip for Localization Teams

While a layout check is the ultimate tool for polishing clean, editable files, remember that for anything else — scanned PDFs, complex designs, or messy formatting — pre-translation CAT tool file preparation is a must.