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Michael Beijer: technical translator

About me

Hi, I’m Michael Beijer. I’m a Dutch-English technical/patent translator & terminologist.

I created this site to help fellow translators and writers who may be struggling with pesky terms. On it, I collect and systematise all the Dutch/English terminology resources I can get my hands on and present the data in an easily searchable format.

This site runs on MediaWiki software, which is the same powerful software used by Wikipedia. It's ideally suited to handle websites containing extremely large amounts of textual data such as Beijerterm.

Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam.

Searching

If you’re researching a tricky term, you have several options:

• Consult the many terms I have researched
• Browse the various Categories I use to organise all this data
• Sortable table columns! Click the triangle in the ‘Languages’ column to find all Dutch/English resources (‘nl, en’)
• Have a look through the Tag cloud
• Try the search box above! Tip: put your search term "in quotes"

Searchable PDFs created from scanned originals

Paperbound dictionaries are useful, but even more so after having been digitised and converted into searchable PDFs. These PDFs will typically contain both the original scanned image plus a separate text layer produced using optical character recognition (OCR). These files can then be indexed in a desktop search program such as dtSearch for quick and easy access to the data.

I have all my valuable reference books processed in this way by a professional scanning company called Digitisemybooks.

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