Two printed pages compare English and German text length, showing how translated content can expand and affect document layout for a text expansion calculator.

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Text Expansion Calculator

Free Online Tool

Calculate how much your text will expand

Translation changes how much space your text takes. Pick your target languages and enter your source volume to see how much more (or less) space each language needs, the pages it will take, an estimated page delta and a layout-risk band, all before the layout work begins.

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Source text

English source · v1
More source languages coming. The expansion data is English-based.
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Target languages

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Content type

Shifts the expansion band

Short strings expand far more than long prose: a button can double while a paragraph averages out. The planning range adjusts to match.

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Planning estimates from English source text, not translation guarantees. See the methodology in Text Expansion in Translation.