Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Importing previously done translation
Poster: Mirko Mainardi
Post title: Unreasonable
[quote]Serena Marangoni wrote:
It sounds fair. Obviously the client thinks that the translation is already done and expects a very low rate... I have enough work right now, so I could just refuse if the rate is not what I think is adequate for the time/work invested, but this is a very good client, and I don't want to disappoint them. [/quote]
That's unfortunate, but their expectations are unreasonable. OCR + alignment (+manual corrections) can be very time consuming, so expecting not to pay for that and even ask for "discounts" on repetitions/fuzzies on top of that seems totally unreasonable to me. If they're really a "good" client, they should understand this if you explain it to them...
Topic: Importing previously done translation
Poster: Mirko Mainardi
Post title: Unreasonable
[quote]Serena Marangoni wrote:
It sounds fair. Obviously the client thinks that the translation is already done and expects a very low rate... I have enough work right now, so I could just refuse if the rate is not what I think is adequate for the time/work invested, but this is a very good client, and I don't want to disappoint them. [/quote]
That's unfortunate, but their expectations are unreasonable. OCR + alignment (+manual corrections) can be very time consuming, so expecting not to pay for that and even ask for "discounts" on repetitions/fuzzies on top of that seems totally unreasonable to me. If they're really a "good" client, they should understand this if you explain it to them...