# Compendo Translate

> Compendo Translate brings the original book’s index into the language of its translation: every entry translated, every page recalculated, with the editor in control.

## Indexes that survive translation.

Every entry of the original index, translated and repaginated for the new edition. The editor stays in control.

## How it works — Easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. **Upload both editions.** The PDF of the original and the PDF of the translation.
2. **Translation and repagination.** Each entry is translated in the terminology of the translated book, then pointed to its new pages.
3. **Check, approve, export.** You settle the few questions raised, then export the index.

An invented example: the first lines of the index of a history of distillation, and of the French index Compendo Translate would produce from it.

| Original edition | Traduction française |
| --- | --- |
| alchemy 3–7, 41 | alchimie 3–8, 45 |
| and medicine 52–4 | et médecine 57–59 |
| alembic 12, 18–19, Fig. 1.2 | alambic 13, 20–21, fig. 1.2 |
| angel’s share 97 | — |
| aqua vitae 23–6, 60 | aqua vitae 25–28, 65 |
| Arnald of Villanova 24, 58 | Arnaud de Villeneuve 26, 63 |
| bain-marie 15 | bain-marie 16–17 |
| Black, Joseph 81–2 | Black, Joseph 88–90 |
| blending 104–6 | assemblage 113–116 |
| bootleggers 131–3 | bootleggers 143–145 |
| bourbon 118, 120 | bourbon 129, 131 |
| brandy 66–8, 112 | brandy 72–74, 122 |
| medicinal use of 66 | usage médical 72 |
| Brunschwig, Hieronymus 30–3 | Brunschwig, Hieronymus 33–36 |
| Liber de arte distillandi 31–2 | Liber de arte distillandi 34–35 |
| — | bouilleurs de cru 150–151 |

An invented example: the first lines of the index of a history of distillation, and of the Spanish index Compendo Translate would produce from it.

| Original edition | Traducción española |
| --- | --- |
| alchemy 3–7, 41 | alquimia 3–7, 43 |
| and medicine 52–4 | y medicina 55–57 |
| alembic 12, 18–19, Fig. 1.2 | alambique 13, 19–20, fig. 1.2 |
| angel’s share 97 | — |
| aqua vitae 23–6, 60 | aqua vitae 24–28, 64 |
| Arnald of Villanova 24, 58 | Arnau de Vilanova 25, 61 |
| bain-marie 15 | baño maría 16–17 |
| Black, Joseph 81–2 | Black, Joseph 86–87 |
| blending 104–6 | — |
| bootleggers 131–3 | — |
| bourbon 118, 120 | bourbon 125, 127 |
| brandy 66–8, 112 | brandy 70–72, 119 |
| medicinal use of 66 | uso medicinal 70 |
| Brunschwig, Hieronymus 30–3 | Brunschwig, Hieronymus 32–35 |
| Liber de arte distillandi 31–2 | Liber de arte distillandi 33–34 |
| — | agave 152 |
| — | aguardiente 21, 64–66 |
| — | barricas 101–102 |

## Performance — From weeks to about an hour.

In a typical 250-page scholarly book

- **~1 hour for the complete index, translated and repaginated.**
- **<2 % of page references for the editor to review.** More than 98% are carried over with no intervention.
- **100 % of the original entries preserved.** Every entry and subentry, with nearly all page references placed. Where the translation omits a passage, the tool says so.
- **100 % of entries checked against the translated text.** Every heading is compared with the words your translator actually used. The index speaks the language of the book, not of a dictionary.

## Editorial control — Automation does the work; the editor stays in control.

- **Every entry stays editable.** Check, correct and approve before export.
- **The choices are yours.** When a term has more than one possible translation, the tool asks you.
- **Consistent by design.** The same book always yields the same index: what you have approved stays approved.

### It finds what everyone else missed

In the first books tested, Compendo Translate flagged errors that were already in print.

- A whole page missing from a translation
- Passages the translator had left out
- A misprinted page range in the original index

Errors made by the indexer, the translator and the publisher alike.

## Trust — Your files stay yours.

- **No third parties.** No data is passed to any third party.
- **GDPR compliant.** Servers located in your jurisdiction, on request.
- **Rights respected.** Those of authors and publishers, at every step.

## Contact — See Compendo Translate at work on one of your titles.

Tell us which book, and into which language: we will show you the result.

<https://compendo.xyz/translate/#contact>