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The complete solution for the translation industry

Déjà Vu is the most powerful and customizable CAT system available today. Combining state of the art TM technology with EBMT techniques, Déjà Vu provides an unmatched breakthrough in productivity and consistency, whether you are an in-house translation department, a translation solution provider or a freelance translator.

Conceptually, Déjà Vu is an inexhaustible, infallible and instantly accessible extension to the translator's memory, complementing his skills rather than replacing them. At any time during the course of a translation, you can ask Déjà Vu to tell you whether you have translated a specific sentence or expression (or a similar one) in the past, and have it immediately display the previous translation if this is the case. This results in large productivity increases for the translator, who is relieved of the repetitive parts of translation, and can concentrate on the creative aspects.

It's like getting that déjà vu feeling as you work - 'I've seen that sentence before!' - only this time Déjà Vu is there to confirm it.

Déjà Vu goes one step beyond traditional TM tools. While other systems only display exact and fuzzy matches, Déjà Vu intelligently uses the memory database, terminology database and project lexicon to increase the quality of fuzzy matches by working with smaller segments and words. For close fuzzy matches, Déjà Vu will often produce a perfect translation, in your own style.

However, Déjà Vu is not just a mere TM tool. It is a full-featured integrated translation environment with many additional features that will increase your productivity and the consistency of your work. Whatever file formats you work with, Déjà Vu presents a uniform interface, displaying only translatable text, so you can work comfortably without having to worry about overwriting formatting and layout information, and without the need to buy and learn a number of different DTP and software development tools.

Déjà Vu's other unique features include:

| Scan
| Assemble
| Learn
| Pretranslate
| Propagate
| Integrated Environment
| TermWatch
| Project Lexicon
| Project Management
| Project Statistics
| Quality Assurance
| Multiple Format Support
| Database Maintenance
| Alignment
| SQL Support

Scan

Scan the database at any time for a source sentence, or part of a source sentence, and instantly retrieve and insert the corresponding translation. Typical scan times range from a few milliseconds to a few tenths of a second.

Assemble

Our newest technology, Assemble, takes a closer look at the memory database than Scan, and in many cases can put together a translation out of pieces that were not sufficient for Scan.

Learn

The Learn function intelligently evaluates source and target sentences in the memory database to give you the most probable translation for an unresolved term in the lexicon, or for an untranslated expression in the source text - based on your own translations.

Pretranslate

Tell Déjà Vu to search the memory database for all the sentences in your project. Any exact matches found will be inserted in the correct places - and fuzzy matches will be entered as suggestions. Making updates of previous jobs has never been easier.

Propagate

Propagate a new translation (which was not in the memory database when you pre-translated the project) across all the files in a project. Fuzzy propagation (to similar sentences) is also available.

Integrated Environment

As an integrated environment, Déjà Vu offers all the features you expect in a word processor, including AutoText, search and replace and spell checking.

You can activate AutoSearch to have Déjà Vu automatically scan the memory and terminology databases every time you move to a new sentence, and search the memory and terminology databases and the project lexicon for any relevant portions of the sentence.

Extensive project navigation features allow you to view the sentences in your project in context or sorted alphabetically and to place bookmarks in the document to return instantly to specific places.

TermWatch

Déjà Vu includes TermWatch, a full fledged terminology management module that is also accessible from other Windows applications. With a single mouse click you can access all of your terminology from within Déjà Vu.

Project Lexicon

Using a project lexicon makes the translation process more consistent and improves the efficiency of Déjà Vu. It can also be used to generate glossaries for customers or to create terminology databases from projects.

Project Management

Extensive project management options which simplify the completion of large, multifile and multilingual translation projects. Work with several translators on a single project in different languages, or with several translators in the same language on a single project. Distribute satellite projects and receive/distribute new database entries as separate text files.

Sentence locking enables the project manager to prevent the translation of specific sentences.

Export whole projects into Word documents, and re-import them after checking the spelling and grammar.

Project Statistics

Count words and characters per file or per project, both source and target, with project and file totals. Save the report for invoicing and statistics. Also, analyze a project's internal repetition factor.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance functions help you check for the consistency of numerals and terminology. Déjà Vu can also tell you if duplicate source sentences have been translated in different ways.

Multiple Format Support

Déjà Vu can build and handle projects for Word (including Word 2000), RTF, Help Contents, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PageMaker, QuarkXPress, Interleaf, Java Properties files, HTML (including ASP and embedded JavaScript and VBScript code), HTML Help, SGML and XML, RC, C/C++/Java, IBM TM, Trados WorkBench, and plain text files.

Database Maintenance

Employ database maintenance utilities to keep your memory and terminology databases well honed. All databases can be reversed, e.g. an English > German database can turn into a German > English one.

Import and export from the Déjà Vu databases into a wide variety of formats, including the industry standard TMX.

Alignment tool

Déjà Vu includes a File Alignment Wizard that will help you create memory databases from existing translations.

SQL Support

All Déjà Vu programs support SQL queries and commands for maintenance and filtering.

Déjà Vu supports all of the languages currently supported in Windows 95/98/NT4/2000, including bi-directional languages (Arabic and Hebrew).

Déjà Vu runs under Windows 95/98/NT4/2000. For optimum performance, a Pentium II processor with 64Mb of RAM is recommended.

Atril provides free lifetime unlimited technical support for Déjà Vu. If you run into any problem, you can take advantage of Déjà Vu's Support Center, or contact our Technical Support Service. Users routinely suggest new features, which are normally implemented in a few hours, or at most in a few days.

Get that Déjà Vu feeling: state-of-the-art, productivity-boosting technology for the translation industry.