French Translation Services

A: Standard translation involves a professional and precise translation without any formal certification, suitable for general purposes like websites or personal communication.

Certified translation includes a signed declaration from the translator or translation agency, confirming the translation’s completeness and accuracy, often required for official documents such as USCIS applications, legal papers, or academic records.

Notarized translation involves an additional layer of validation, where the translator’s certification is notarized by a public notary, typically necessary for certain legal documents or international use to ensure official recognition.

A: At IVANNOVATION, we employ only qualified and certified French linguists who undergo a rigorous vetting process.

We prioritize candidates with advanced education in linguistics or translation and interpretation, along with relevant regional or language certifications, such as those from the American Translators Association (ATA).

We also seek translators with extensive experience in the specific content types we handle. We also ensure that native speakers of the target language are selected for translation tasks—a native French speaker for French translation services and a native English translator for translations into English.

A: Yes, we do! In addition to document translation, we provide French interpretation for both in-person and remote settings. Whether you need assistance at a doctor’s appointment, during a factory tour with international visitors, or at a conference, we can provide a French interpreter for your event.

A: Translating the documents yourself or using tools like Google Translate is not accepted by USCIS.

Instead, USCIS requires certified translations, meaning the documents must be translated into English by a professional French translator or translation company who provides a signed certification document attesting to the translation’s accuracy. Contact us for certified French translation services for your USCIS application or any other legal translation needs.

A: Each U.S. state has its own regulations regarding driver’s license translations, but most require a certified translation. Some states may also require the French translation agency to complete an additional form.

Please check your state’s specific requirements, and let us know what you need. We will be happy to provide a translation that meets your state’s criteria.

You can find a list of each state’s driver’s licensing department websites here.

A: Quality translations take time, as they are performed by human translators who carefully work on your documents.

The duration of a translation project depends on factors such as word count, content complexity, and any additional services required, like desktop publishing (DTP) for document formatting and layout.

For urgent projects, we can expedite the process by dividing the work among multiple translators. Contact us with your translation needs for a price quote and estimated delivery time.

A: Absolutely! Website and software localization is our top specialty.

With 20 years of experience in translating software and web content for the French-speaking market, we offer integrations with popular CMSs and can handle multilingual XLSX files, XML files, DITA XML, HTML, and other formats for web and software localization. Choosing a localization expert like IVANNOVATION ensures a smoother project experience.

A: Yes, we are at the forefront of translation technology and utilize machine translation extensively.

However, our standard service involves translations by professional human French translators. Machine translation may be used to create an initial draft, which is then refined by a human translator, or a human translator may handle the entire process.

For clients with large volumes of low-priority content that they desire translated into French on the cheap, we can develop custom machine translation engines tailored to their needs, offering greater accuracy than general engines like Google Translate or DeepL or AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT. However, be assured that unless otherwise specifically requested, our translations are performed by humans.

A: Our translators are not only native French speakers but also specialists in various fields. We match translations to translators with expertise in the relevant industry, ensuring the use of accurate terminology. For instance, legal documents are translated by legal experts, while construction-related texts are handled by translators with construction industry experience. This approach guarantees precision and the best use of specialized terminology.

A: We employ professional translators with relevant qualifications and extensive experience with IVANNOVATION for both legal documents and complex projects. For large projects, we implement a multi-step quality assurance process that includes both automated QA procedures and human proofreading and editing, ensuring the highest quality and readability of the translated document, software, or website.

A: Yes, we offer multiple CMS integrations. Depending on your CMS and multilingual plugin, you can draft content in English, send it to us for a translation quote with a click, accept the quote, and deploy the French translation to your live site with ease. This process streamlines the transfer of text and translations, saving time and reducing errors. Contact us with your CMS details and localization plans for a quote or consultation.

A: IVANNOVATION has extensive experience in technical translations. We work with translators who specialize in various fields, such as construction, engineering, enterprise software, and more in order to ensure that we get accurate translation no matter what the topic. And we have the expertise to handle structured authoring file types like DITA XML. Let us know your technical translation needs to get started.

A: Of course! We offer French English Translation and English French Translation.

Typically our French to English translation requests involve immigration and legal documents of the customers from their land of birth. They also require a sworn translation for official use. For these French document translation requests we employ native speakers of English who are qualified to translate from French.

Regardless, for all types of French legal translation services, we deliver the translation together with a certification letter, which can optionally be notarized.

For French or English translation service, please fill out our form here and optionally upload your documents for a translation quote.

A: As mentioned above, there are many different varieties of French: there’s a European French, African French, and Canadian French. But, wait, it’s not even that simple; for European French, there’s Belgian French, Swiss French, and French French. In Africa, there’s DR Congo, Algeria, Morocco, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Senegal, and more than 20 other nations with significant French speaking populations! So how do you know what variety of French to translate into? Tell us about your goals and budget and we’ll help you decide on the ideal translation or localization service for you. If you want website translation into one “international French” version for the whole globe, we can do that. If, as is common, you want one version for European French and another for Canadian French, we can do that. Or if you want even more specialized than that, we can also help. The key is that our French linguist for your project will be a native French speaker of the type of French dialect that you desire for your content so that your message will resonate with your selected French speaking audience. If Parisian French is what you need, we have linguists in Paris for your project; if Canadian French is called for, we have linguists in Quebec.