Verdict The Web-based product offers excellent value for money, Systran Professional less so. Systran Professional Standard translates to and from French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Text is transferred to dialog boxes and the appropriate language translation is selected.
Once the software is set up, translation is a simple and relatively quick process. Although the software will work on a 75MHz Pentium system, this would make translation times unacceptably high. Accuracy was good but the software has problems with punctuation, names and proper nouns. Systranet provides a far more useful service. It's the same software adapted to run on Web pages.