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Thread poster: Yuki Okada
Yuki Okada
Yuki Okada  Identity Verified
Canada
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Member (2007)
English to Japanese
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Jan 18, 2017

I have a rather large project to translate an English website into Japanese. My translation agency gave me sdlxliff files. As I translate them, I felt that the word count is much larger than what the Trados analysis says, so I counted the same set of files using an on-line tool: https://wordy.com/word-count-tool/
Here are the results for six files in total:
Trados 2015: 38235
Wordy: 7... See more
I have a rather large project to translate an English website into Japanese. My translation agency gave me sdlxliff files. As I translate them, I felt that the word count is much larger than what the Trados analysis says, so I counted the same set of files using an on-line tool: https://wordy.com/word-count-tool/
Here are the results for six files in total:
Trados 2015: 38235
Wordy: 76747
I realize there could be a small difference between different applications, but it should not be twice as many.
My files came in html.ttx.sdlxliff extension.

How can this happen? Does anyone know a good word counting application? It would be great if it produces a breakdown according to match percentages like Trados, but a total word count alone will help.

Thank you for your help!

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Michael Newton
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United States
Local time: 18:56
Japanese to English
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Word count too small Jan 19, 2017

You should contact the client immediately about this discrepancy. All too often the agency holds the cards when it comes to word-counting software. This applies particularly to agencies in Asia.
 


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