The Xbench Quality Assurance Tool is a free powerful tool for Quality Assurance and Terminology Management from ApSIC. The free version 2.9 supports dozens of different CAT file formats but is unfortunately only available for Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and is Non-Unicode. A paid version with more features and additional plug-ins for many major CAT tools (SDL Trados Studio, SDL Passolo, Matecat, Memsource, Transifex, Google Translator Toolkit (GTT), Smartcat, Lingotek, and Memsource) and browsers is available as well.
So far, we have posted a lot of CAT tools (e.g., OmegaT, MateCat) and other tools to help with the daily work of a Freelance Translator or others working in the localization industry. But we lack a tool for Quality Assurance. Xbench is filling this gap.
Features for Terminology Management:
- Search glossaries, translation memories, and bilingual files in many different formats
- Several search options are available: Simple Search, Power Search, MS Word Wildcard Search, Search with Regular Expressions
- Edit glossaries and bilingual files
- and more
Features for Quality Assurance:
- Basic checks: Untranslated Segments, Inconsistencies in Source/Target, Target same as Source
- Content checks: Tag Mismatch, Numeric Mismatch, Double Blank, Repeated Word, etc.
- Spell-checking (free version requires a separate download of (free) additional dictionaries)
- QA reports (in HTML, Excel, tab-delimited text, or XML format)
- and more
Available for: Windows
Download Xbench:
The free version is available at the bottom of the page under “ApSIC Xbench 2.9 – Installer“
System Requirements
- Xbench 3.0: Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2019, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10
- Xbench 2.9: Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, or 7
- 13MB available on disk plus 0.5MB for each spell-checking dictionary installed
- Recommended 2GB of RAM
- Microsoft Word 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, or 2016 if support for uncleaned Word files is needed
- SDLX, if support for .itd files is needed
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