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

Translation changes how much space your text takes. Pick your target languages and enter your source volume to see expansion per language, projected word counts, an estimated page delta and a layout-risk band, all before the layout work begins.

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Source text

English source · v1
Source language More source languages coming. Our expansion data is English-based.
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Word count

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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. We adjust the planning range to match.

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