Move the words inside your Illustrator artwork into the translation workflow they deserve. Export every translatable text frame, translate through Trados or your preferred CAT tool, and return the finished language to its matching artwork object—without the window switching, missed strings and endless paste routine.
Every manual transfer steals attention from translation and design. Copy from Illustrator. Switch applications. Paste. Find the next text object. Repeat. Then do it all again in reverse—and hope nothing was skipped.
A beautifully designed flyer can hide dozens of separate text objects across artboards, groups and layouts. Each manual touch creates another chance to miss a line, paste into the wrong object or leave valuable translation outside the TM.
The bridge gathers the document’s translatable text into an exchange created for translation, keeps frame references organized, and restores completed text to the artwork in a single managed import.
The exchange stays open to the CAT tool your translator already uses. No proprietary translation editor and no forced XLIFF workflow—just a clean JSON source that professional translation software can process and return.
Export the active document, every open document, or a selected batch of Illustrator files.
Give the CAT-ready file to Trados or another JSON-capable translation environment.
Translate, leverage matches, run QA and preserve the project’s linguistic value inside the CAT workflow.
Bring the translated JSON back and update the corresponding Illustrator text objects.
Human-friendly companion included: a real Excel workbook and TSV reference help nontechnical translators understand the extracted content without becoming part of the import contract.
When Illustrator content enters the CAT environment, it can benefit from translation memory, terminology, repetition handling, project QA and review. The translation is no longer trapped in scattered text objects or temporary Word tables—it becomes reusable professional language data.
The exchange format is straightforward and portable, allowing the translator’s own CAT tool to create and manage its internal bilingual format.
A readable XLSX workbook gives less technical translators and reviewers a familiar overview of source text, target space and frame context.
Segment identifiers keep the round trip organized so translated strings can return to their corresponding Illustrator text frames.
Arabic- or Hebrew-dominant translated frames are detected automatically and receive right-to-left paragraph direction where Illustrator supports it.
Paragraph breaks, line feeds and Illustrator soft returns are represented safely through real JSON escapes and restored during import.
Imported artwork remains open for designer review. The user decides when and where the localized Illustrator file is saved.
Run a focused exchange for the document in front of you, capture every Illustrator document already open, or select multiple AI files for a batch export. On return, translated files can be matched against open documents by name.
Secure the full TWAS TranslateAI Bridge professional license at the early-bird price through the end of 1 September 2026. After that date, the regular price applies.
Run the plugin once to view the Machine ID for your Illustrator workstation, then email that ID to Sameh Ragab. You will receive the signed license file and activation guidance for that machine.
Practical answers for translators, designers and localization teams.
No. The bridge exports clean JSON rather than forcing a proprietary bilingual format. Use Trados or another CAT environment that can process JSON, then import the translated JSON.
JSON is the reliable import/export contract. Excel is a human-readable companion for translators or reviewers who want a familiar overview of the extracted segments and their context.
Yes. Once the artwork text is processed in the CAT environment, it can participate in that tool’s translation-memory, terminology, repetition and QA workflows instead of remaining outside them in isolated Illustrator objects.
The imported translated text is inspected frame by frame. When RTL script dominates a frame, the plugin applies right-to-left paragraph direction where the Illustrator object model supports it.
The plugin is designed for Adobe Illustrator 2026 on Windows. Microsoft Excel is required when generating the native XLSX companion workbook.
Email Sameh Ragab at arabiana2008@gmail.com. Include the Machine ID shown by the plugin when requesting a license.
Created by Sameh Ragab, Senior Arabic Translator, Editor & Terminologist; ISO 17100 Lead Auditor; United Nations and World Bank Translation Consultant; and developer of the TWAS product family.