English to French

Bookkeeping software for translators

• Practicount - Word count software
• AIT - Translation 3000 - Invoicing software for translators and project management tools

CAT tools for translators

• SDL Trados
• Wordfast - from Yves Champollion
• DéjàVu - from Atril
• Alchemy Catalyst
• Metatexis - from Hermann Bruns

Dictionaries

• Harrap’s unabridged CD

Automatic translation

• Google translate
• Reverso
• Systran

Disclaimer: **These tools are only useful for information purposes**, the results should not be used for your communication documents but only to help you understand the gist of a foreign text.

Funny examples of automatic translation howlers, blunders:

• Chinese for “Restaurant” translated as “Server error”
• “I am not in the office at the moment” in Welsh, on a road sign