CAT Tool Integration Overview

Supervertaler is designed to work alongside professional CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) tools, not replace them. Use it as a companion tool for AI-powered translation within your existing workflow.

Supported CAT Tools

CAT Tool	Import Format	Export Format
memoQ	Bilingual DOCX or RTF, XLIFF	Bilingual DOCX or RTF, XLIFF
Trados Studio	SDLPPX packages	SDLRPX return packages
Phrase (Memsource)	Bilingual DOCX	Bilingual DOCX
CafeTran Espresso	Bilingual table DOCX	Bilingual table DOCX
Déjà Vu X3	Bilingual RTF	Bilingual RTF

Why Use Supervertaler with CAT Tools?

AI Translation Power

CAT tools have limited AI integration. Supervertaler lets you:

• Use multiple LLM providers (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini)
• Create custom translation prompts
• Batch translate with context awareness

Workflow Flexibility

• Translate offline with Ollama
• Work on files while others are locked in the CAT tool
• Quick review and post-editing without heavy software

Typical Workflow

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    YOUR CAT TOOL                            │
│  (memoQ, Trados, Phrase, CafeTran)                         │
│                                                             │
│  1. Receive project from client                            │
│  2. Set up TM, termbases in CAT tool                       │
│  3. Export bilingual file or package                       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                            ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    SUPERVERTALER                            │
│                                                             │
│  4. Import bilingual file                                  │
│  5. AI translate + post-edit                               │
│  6. Use SuperLookup for research                           │
│  7. Export bilingual file                                  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                            ↓
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    YOUR CAT TOOL                            │
│                                                             │
│  8. Import translations back                               │
│  9. Run QA checks                                          │
│  10. Deliver to client                                     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Key Concepts

Preserving Formatting

Supervertaler preserves CAT tool formatting tags:

• memoQ: {1}, [2}, {MQ} inline tags
• Trados: <1>, </1> numbered tags
• Tags are highlighted in the grid for visibility

Segment Status

Segment statuses map between tools:

• Draft → Trados Draft / memoQ Edited
• Confirmed → Trados Translated ✓ / memoQ Confirmed
• Approved → Trados Sign-off Approved / memoQ Reviewer 2 confirmed

See Segment Statuses for the full reference.

The language pair

Every project has a source and a target language, and TM matches are looked up for exactly that pair – a project with the wrong pair finds no TM matches at all, even though the TM looks fine. How Supervertaler gets the pair depends on the file you import:

Import	Language pair
Trados package (SDLPPX) or SDLXLIFF	Read from the file.
memoQ bilingual DOCX, RTF or XLIFF	Read from the table’s column headers (DOCX), its header row (RTF) or the file itself (XLIFF). In the DOCX headers, codes such as IT or it-IT, names in other languages such as Italiano, and regional forms such as English (United Kingdom) are all understood. If the pair can’t be read, the Confirm language pair prompt asks you.
Phrase bilingual DOCX	Read from the file; the Select Languages dialog opens pre-filled for you to confirm.
Trados bilingual review DOCX	The file has no language header, but Word stores a language on the source text and on the target text. The Select Languages dialog opens pre-filled from those (“Auto-detected from file: German → French. Confirm or change below.”). If both columns carry the same language, nothing is assumed.
CafeTran bilingual DOCX	The Confirm language pair prompt opens, pre-filled the same way from the Word languages of the two columns, or from the column headers if they are language codes.
Déjà Vu X3 bilingual RTF	The Confirm language pair prompt shows the pair Supervertaler worked out from the language codes in the file. If you correct it, the export tags the translations with the corrected language too.

The pre-filled and confirmed pairs for Trados review DOCX, CafeTran and Déjà Vu X3 files are new in v1.10.372. Before that, CafeTran projects were always created as English → Dutch, and Déjà Vu projects fell back to Dutch → Spanish when no languages were found. If an older project of yours gets no TM matches, see TM Matches Not Appearing.

Round-Trip Compatibility

Files exported from Supervertaler can be imported back into the CAT tool with:

• All translations preserved
• Status information maintained
• Formatting intact

Choosing the Right Workflow

Scenario	Recommended Workflow
Full project in memoQ	memoQ Bilingual DOCX
Trados Studio package	SDLPPX/SDLRPX
Phrase/Memsource project	Phrase Bilingual DOCX
CafeTran external view	CafeTran DOCX
Standalone DOCX	Direct import, no CAT tool needed

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Tool-Specific Guides

memoQ	memoQ workflow guide →
Trados Studio	Trados workflow guide →
Phrase	Phrase workflow guide →
CafeTran	CafeTran workflow guide →