Multilingual electronic document translation, management, and delivery system

An apparatus for managing multilingual translation content and document delivery for a Web site in a computer environment, comprising:

• a module for automatically determining the language and country of a Web site visitor;
• a module for directing a Web server to deliver the appropriate localized content contained in one or more country language databases and/or file systems to said visitor's browser;
• a module for informing said browser of the proper font and content encoding needed to display the selected language in the requested document, wherein said browser is allowed to download said font from said apparatus;
• a module for intercepting input text that is submitted using an HTML form;
• a form database, wherein said input text is written into said form database in a manner so that it is translated later, wherein said form database includes information to identify the country, language and encoding of said text to interpret it for subsequent translation;
• identifying content that needs to be translated and staging the content for offline translation by at least one manual translation resource and at least one automatic translation resource;
• dynamically routing and sequencing said content to the at least one manual translation resource and at least one automatic translation resource, wherein said routing and sequencing is performed according to any of:
• the subject matter of the document to be processed, target language of the translation, and whether draft-only or high quality is required;
• and
• a database viewer, wherein said viewer allows the translated content to be viewed in the context of the form in which it was originally entered.

A program storage medium readable by a computer, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps for managing multilingual translation content and document delivery for a Web site in a computer environment, comprising the steps of:

• automatically determining the language and country of a Web site visitor;
• directing a Web server to deliver the appropriate localized content contained in one or more country/language databases and/or file systems to said visitor's browser;
• informing said browser of the proper font and content encoding needed to display the selected language in the requested document, wherein said browser is allowed to download said font from said method;
• intercepting input text that is submitted using an HTML form;
• writing said input text into a form database in a manner so that it is translated later, wherein said form database includes information to identify the country, language and encoding of said text to interpret it for subsequent translation;
• identifying content that needs to be translated and staging the content for offline translation by at least one manual translation resource and at least one automatic translation resource;
• dynamically routing and sequencing said content to the at least one manual translation resource and at least one automatic translation resource, wherein said routing and sequencing is performed according to any of:
• the subject matter of the document to be processed, target language of the translation, and whether draft-only or high quality is required;
• and
• providing a database viewer which allows the translated content to be viewed in the context of the form in which it was originally entered.