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CATEGORY / Translation services
USCIS requires a certified translation for every foreign-language marriage certificate submitted with an immigration petition. Most rejections happen not because the translation was wrong, but because it was not certified. This guide explains what that means and how to avoid it.
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Most clients who need DTP translation services encounter it for the first time on a quote, after they have already submitted a file. This article explains what DTP is, why translated documents require it, and what happens to a document that skips this step.
CATEGORY / Finance
Every professional services company has administrative processes that consume human capacity without requiring human judgment. Invoicing is one of them. Here's how we built an AI billing agent to handle it, and why we designed it the way we did.
CATEGORY / Translation services
Tomedes AI translation is not a standalone machine translation engine. It is a managed professional workflow that pairs AI speed with human expertise, built for organizations that need both scale and quality accountability in the same service.
CATEGORY / Translation services
A rejected birth certificate translation can cost you a visa cycle, an adoption deadline, or a court filing window. This guide covers exactly what type of translation is required for immigration, legal proceedings, and official submissions — and how to order one that gets accepted the first time.
CATEGORY / Translation services
I made a call this week to rewrite the Tomedes quote page. Not a copy refresh, a structural change to how we describe what we sell and to whom. Here is why.
CATEGORY / Translation services
Every year, people submit translated documents to government agencies, courts, and institutions — only to have them rejected. Not because the translation was inaccurate. Because the wrong type of translation was submitted. This guide explains the difference between certified and notarized translation, when each is required, and how to order the right one the first time.
CATEGORY / Translation news
AI translation in 2026 reaches approximately 96% accuracy across 133 languages. That number sounds reassuring until you do the arithmetic: on a 10,000-word document, 96% accuracy means roughly 400 words are potentially wrong. You cannot tell which 400 words without reading the whole document, and if you are reading the whole document anyway, you are already doing human review. The accuracy question is not whether AI translation is good. It is whether it is good enough for your specific document, your specific language pair, and the specific consequences of the errors it does produce. This guide answers that question by document type, with real data from peer-reviewed research and industry benchmarks.
CATEGORY / Translation services
AIPE is showing up on purchase orders. Translators are listing it in their service coverage alongside MTPE, and clients are ordering it for Hebrew, Punjabi, and Tagalog projects without being entirely sure what they have bought. The confusion is understandable — AIPE (AI Post-Editing) and MTPE (Machine Translation Post-Editing) describe essentially the same workflow, but they arrive from different directions: MTPE is the industry's technical term, while AIPE is the buyer-facing label that has emerged as AI translation tools proliferated. Understanding what they share, where they differ, and how both compare to full human translation is the most practically useful thing a translation buyer can know in 2026. This guide answers every question buyers ask before, during, and after placing an order.
CATEGORY / Translation services
For almost 20 years, Tomedes built its reputation as a professional translation company. Then the market shifted — not away from professional translation, but away from the vocabulary buyers used to look for it. CEO Ofer Tirosh explains what the data showed, what the team decided, and what "AI-enabled" actually means when it is more than a marketing phrase.