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Supported File Formats

LILT supports the import and export of a wide range of file types to make your translation workflow as streamlined as possible. All supported formats are listed in the tables below. Any format not in tables below will require file pre-processing and do not support instant file translation. By default, documents are exported in the same format they were uploaded. Exporting to plain text and XLIFF 1.2 is also available (see the Document Downloads section of the Document Actions article). All translated and confirmed segments can also be exported in TMX format for each Data Source. Supported formats are TMX and SDLTM.

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Desktop publishing formats

The following formats have limited or no export support in their original format:
  • Microsoft Office legacy file formats (DOC, XLS, and PPT) will only support export to TXT or XLIFF. Note: The import of Microsoft Office legacy file formats is only available via the API.

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Text and software localization formats

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Multimedia file type support

Image, audio, and video file support depends on the third-party AI provider you have configured within LILT.

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Image files

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Audio/Video files

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Bilingual formats

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Overall limitations

  • Maximum TM file size: 2GB, applicable to all file types listed in the table above. If submitting a zip file, the uncompressed files must have a total size below 2GB.
  • Large files: For larger files, zip the TMX file and upload with the extension .tmx.zip. TMX files are currently the only type of zipped memory file LILT supports for import.

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Translation Memory (TM)

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Termbase (TB)

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File limitations for Translation Memory (TM) and Termbase (TB)

  • Maximum TB file size: 200 MB, applicable to all file types listed in the table above.
  • File structure: For TSV, CSV, and XLSX Termbases, simply use a two-column format where the first column contains the terms in the source language and the second column the corresponding translations in the target language. See the Data Source Maintenance Best Practices article for more details.

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Packages

SDLPPX packages can be imported in the Project’s Documents window. LILT will upload the first document in the package and will automatically upload any associated SDLTM files into the Data Source.

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Pre-processing for unsupported file formats

If your files are not automatically processable, you will see a “Needs pre-processing” tag when creating your job. Image Once the job has been created, the job will go into the “pre-processing” status and you can track the state of these jobs under the Browse Jobs page. The status will show as “pre-processing”. Image

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Services customers

  • Once these files are submitted for translation, the LILT translation team will work on adapting the files to be able to be processable by the LILT system for translation.
  • Once the job is in a processable state, the job status will automatically move to an “In progress” state. From here, the job will follow the localization workflow as defined.

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Platform customers

  • If you are a platform customer, an Admin or Manager will need to access the job in pre-processing stage and adapt the file so it can be processable.
  • Once the job is in a processable state, the job status will automatically move to an “In progress” state. From here, the job will follow the localization workflow as defined.