How a Global Engineering Firm Translated Its Manuals into 150+ Languages With Formatting Intact
See how a global engineering firm translated manuals into 150+ languages with AI while preserving original formatting and structure.
Translating large volumes of product manuals and brochures into multiple languages was slow, manual work, and keeping the original layout intact made it worse. ConforgeLabs deployed a multilingual AI translator that reads scanned documents in 150+ languages and delivers neural-quality translations while preserving the formatting, turning a tedious process into an automated one.
Keeping Translated Manuals Looking Like the Originals Was a Slow Process
Selling engineering products globally means shipping the documentation that goes with them, including product manuals and brochures, in the language of every market. For this firm, that meant translating large volumes of technical material into multiple languages, and the volume alone made it a grind. The real drag was formatting. A product manual isn't running text; it's structured layout, such as tables, callouts, diagrams with labels, and multi-column brochures. Translating the words is only half the task when the output has to look like the original, and doing that by hand meant reflowing every translated document to match its source. The process was tedious and time-consuming, and it scaled badly: every new language and every document revision multiplied the manual effort.
“Translation we could outsource. Rebuilding every manual so the translated version looked exactly like the original, and that's where the time actually went.”
