Basic Page comprises 1800 symbols with spaces, or approximately 20 lines with 12 words in each, which corresponds to 250 words per page on average and takes about 6 MB in MS WORD doc-format.

To get Page Count for a fragment of plain text divide total amount of characters by 1800 and round the result to the next integer number. Apparently, rounding works in favor of а service provider. The lower is the size of a text fragment, the bigger would be the write-up. Compare it with rounding minutes in cell phone communication industry,

Also, such Page Count for Russian (Ukrainian) text may be 12-15% higher than for identical English text, because Russian (Ukrainian) words are longer.

Another method of measuring the length of a text is based on Word Count. The lack of such method lies in the fact that not all words are created equal. However it provides exact measure of the text length without any rounding.

Be aware of those intricacies when choose your language provider. Russian translation agencies usually quote on Page Count basis, while western agencies, as well as freelancers all over the world, charge on Word Count basis.

Not all translations are created equal!

Some documents can be quite simple and have many spaces on its pages. Others, on a contrary, can be compact and have very complex layout, and their translation may require skilled and time-consuming word processing work. Abbreviations, names and specific terms often require exhaustive research on the internet.

Translation prices are subject to many factors like those mentioned above and often cannot be pre-set without overcharging a client or incurring own losses.

For that reason we need you to e-mail us the text or the image of the document to be translated for an estimate.

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