READING THE RESULTS

What it checks

EasyQLab runs 47 checks on every page of every language. Here is each one, grouped by family: what it catches, an example, the severity it gives by default, and what to do when it fires.

How the checks work

One finding card in EasyQLab: severity, title, check code, page, the buttons and the source and target evidence — One finding. The check code (here next to the page) tells you which of the checks below raised it.

EasyQLab first pairs every paragraph, cell and box of the original with its translation. Then each check compares the pair: text, numbers, format and layout.

Two checks use AI directly: AI review of the translation reads each paragraph against its original, and AI visual review looks at both pages side by side. The rest are rules.

Three checks compare the languages with each other. They only run when the project has three languages or more.

Every finding carries its check code (C11, C39, X1…). You see it on the finding card and in the CSV, so you can trace any mark back to its check. The annotated PDF shows the check’s name instead of its code, because that is what the person fixing the file understands.

When several checks see the same error, it appears once, with the highest severity, and the card says “also:” with the names of the other checks.

The severities below are the defaults. In Settings → Checks you can switch any check off or give it another severity. Anything you switch off produces no findings. See Settings and review profiles.

What to do when a check fires

Click the finding. Both pages jump to it, marked on the original and on the translation.
Compare the two. The card shows the Source and Target text, and often a hint with what to change.
Decide. Real error if it needs fixing; Not an error if it is a false alarm; ignore if it is right but doesn’t matter for this delivery. See Deciding.

Severity goes from 1 (acceptable) to 5 (critical). What each level means, and how severities become a verdict, is on The traffic light.

The checks, family by family

A language opened in EasyQLab with the Category filter above the pages and findings from several families in the list — The Category filter above the pages groups the findings by family. Click a family to hide it while you work on another.

The family names below are the ones the Category filter and Settings use.

Numbers & entities

Data that should come through the translation unchanged.

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Numbers, amounts and URLs `C11`	An amount, phone number, URL or promo code that is missing or different.	“1-800-555-0100” → “1-800-555-0010”	3
Number format `C24`	Thousands and decimal separators that don’t follow the language, and full-width digits where the language doesn’t use them.	“1,000.50” left as is in German	2
Dates `C25`	A date whose day, month or year changed. The format may change; the date may not.	“March 3, 2027” → “3 de marzo de 2026”	3
Measurements `C26`	A quantity with a unit (km, kg, %, °) missing from the translation.	“25 %” lost from a sentence	3
Extra numbers `C31`	A number in the translation that is not in the original.	a “2” that appears from nowhere	2
Broken URL `C34`	A web address split across two lines. Copied by hand, it doesn’t work.	“www.example. com/plan”	2
Hyperlinks `C35`	A real link in the file that was lost while translating or reapplying formatting.	the email address is no longer clickable	4
Trademark symbols `C37`	A ©, ®, ™ or ℠ that the original has and the translation doesn’t.	“Brand®” → “Brand”	4

When it fires: fix the figure in the translation; it should match the original exactly. A trademark symbol is a legal matter for your client, not a style choice.

Colour

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Text colour `C1`	A paragraph in a different colour from the original, measured as the eye sees it, not by colour codes.	a blue heading turned black	2
Brand colour in vectors `C2`	Backgrounds, boxes and rules whose brand colour drifted, often because of the export profile.	the brand background slightly off	2

The card shows both colours as swatches, so you can see the difference instead of reading codes.

Typography

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Typefaces and substitutions `C3`	A different font family from the original.	a sans-serif body set in a serif	1
Type size `C6`	A paragraph whose size falls outside the document’s own scale.	one paragraph much smaller than the rest	2
Size emphasis `C33`	A word set larger for emphasis in the original that lost its emphasis.	a big “FREE” set at body size	1
Glyph corruption `C38`	A character from a script neither language uses.	a Chinese character inside Spanish text	3

Common false alarms: a language that needs its own font. Add the replacement in Settings → Typefaces (Font equivalences) and it stops raising a finding. See Typefaces.

Styles

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Bold `C4`	Bold in the original that is missing in the translation.	“Deadline: May 1” → “Fecha límite: 1 de mayo”	4
Italics `C5`	The same for italics, except in languages that don’t use them.	a title in italics set upright	3
Initial capitalisation `C18`	The original starts with a capital and the translation doesn’t. Not applied to scripts without capitals.	“Call us” → “llámenos”	2
Duplicate words `C23`	The same word twice in a row.	“para para”	3

Common false alarms: some scripts are set in a heavier font. When text looks bold only because of the language’s font, Bold reports it at severity 1, as a notice, not as added bold.

Layout

How the text sits on the page.

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Margins `C8`	Text that spills out of the text area of the original.	a longer line running into the margin	3
Trim area and collisions `C9`	Text outside the trim area, or over an image when it isn’t in the original.	a caption sitting on the photo	4
Orphan words `C14`	A single word alone on the last line of a paragraph. In Polish, Czech and Slovak, also a one-letter word left at the end of a line (severity 2).	“…a su médico. hoy”	3
Superscript and subscript `C36`	A footnote marker or a unit index that dropped to the baseline.	“m²” → “m2”	3
Tables cell by cell `C41`	A cell in another column (4), text running out of its cell (3), against its border or a continued table without its header (2).	a price under the wrong column	4
Text that cannot be seen `C42`	White on white or text covered by a box or image (5); text cut by a frame edge (4).	a paragraph hidden under a photo	5
Text boxes `C45`	Text running out of its box when it fits in the original, and boxes that disappeared.	a call-out box overflowing	3
AI visual review `C40`	Looks at both pages like a DTP reviewer: a table that changed, a rule, box or logo missing or added, formatting applied differently, paragraphs glued together, broken words.	the logo is missing from page 2	5

Common false alarms: in languages with partial support, orphan words and margins depend on line breaking and are only a hint. AI visual review gives each kind of error its own severity; see The traffic light.

Structure

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Structure `C10`	A paragraph or page that is missing. It tells a real omission apart from text that simply reflowed.	the last bullet of a list is gone	5
Text volume `C15`	Much less text than the language normally needs, which suggests something was left out.	a page with half the expected text	3

Punctuation

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Punctuation `C12`	Brackets, colons, question marks and similar marks the translation lost.	“Questions?” → “Preguntas”	3
Ending punctuation `C21`	A paragraph that doesn’t end like the original, allowing for each script’s equivalents.	a sentence without its final full stop	2
Quotes and brackets `C22`	Quotes or brackets that don’t add up, or were left unclosed.	“(see page 4”	3
Script-native marks `C28`	Latin punctuation in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic or Urdu, which have their own marks.	“,” instead of “，” in Chinese	3
Punctuation sequence `C29`	Two marks in a row that weren’t in the original.	“,.” or “..”	3

Spacing

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Spacing `C13`	Double spaces and spaces before punctuation.	“hoy mismo” · “gracias !”	2
Spacing around data `C16`	A figure the original keeps apart from the text, run together in the translation.	“Call800-555”	2
Non-breaking space `C20`	A non-breaking space in the original that the translation doesn’t keep.	“10 kg” split across lines	2

Segment (untranslated text)

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Untranslated text `C17`	A paragraph identical to the original: text left in the source language. Pure data, such as a URL or a phone number, is ignored.	“Learn more about your benefits” left in English	5

Common false alarms: not everything that stays the same is a mistake. A name, an address or legal small print left as in the original is reported at severity 2; a loose phrase left in English, at 4. If it is meant to stay in English, mark it Not an error.

Consistency

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Translation consistency `C27`	The same text translated two different ways in the same document.	“Member Services” translated two ways	4
Reverse consistency `C32`	Two different paragraphs of the original with the same translation, usually a copy-paste onto the wrong paragraph.	two different headings with the same text	4

Length

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Paragraph length `C19`	A translation much shorter or longer than its original, paragraph by paragraph. It finds the missing half sentence even when the total looks right.	a two-sentence paragraph with one sentence	3

Terminology

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Forbidden terms `C30`	Words your client doesn’t allow. The list comes from the CSV you upload in `Client lists`.	a competitor’s product name	4

It only fires if you uploaded a list with prohibido rows. See Client lists.

Linguistic (spelling)

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Spelling `C44`	Words the language’s dictionary doesn’t know, per variant.	“benefcios”	2

Spelling is checked in Spanish (Spain, US, Mexico), French, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil, Portugal), German (Germany, Switzerland), Russian and Greek. Words also in the original, your client’s brands and glossary, acronyms, codes and proper names are let through.

Translation

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
AI review of the translation `C39`	Reads each paragraph against its original and flags what a reviewer would send back: an omitted or added phrase, a changed figure or title, inverted meaning, a typo, an untranslated fragment, a wrong label, a term that changes within the page.	“does not cover” → “covers”	5

Its severity depends on the kind of error, from 2 for a term to 5 for an omission; the full list is on The traffic light. Its explanation is written in the interface language at the time the page was read. You can hide its findings with Show translation review (N); see The results screen.

Images

Check	What it catches	Example	Sev
Images `C7`	An image that is missing, replaced, rescaled or moved. It compares count, content, scale, position and colour space, and tells a re-exported image apart from a different one.	the English screenshot kept in the French file	2

Consensus

These run only with three languages or more. They point at the language that differs from all the others.

Check	What it catches	Sev
Consensus · colour across languages `X1`	One language uses a colour none of the others use. It is almost always a defect.	4
Consensus · typefaces across languages `X2`	A font family present in every language but one.	3
Consensus · type size across languages `X3`	A file whose body size is far from the rest.	2

Which checks need the PDF

Settings, Checks tab: the list of checks with their switches and severities — Settings → Checks. Every check from this page, with its switch and its severity.

Word, PowerPoint and Excel files are checked on their own. But some checks look at the drawn page, and only a PDF has one. Without a PDF, these 11 checks don’t run:

Check	Family
Brand colour in vectors `C2`	Colour
Italics `C5`	Styles
Margins `C8`	Layout
Trim area and collisions `C9`	Layout
Orphan words `C14`	Layout
Size emphasis `C33`	Typography
Broken URL `C34`	Numbers & entities
AI visual review `C40`	Layout
Tables cell by cell `C41`	Layout
Text that cannot be seen `C42`	Layout
Text boxes `C45`	Layout

Without a PDF, Images (C7) only compares how many images there are. If you have both the PDF and the Word or PowerPoint file, upload both. See Files, formats and limits.

A scanned PDF, or one whose text was turned into outlines, has no live text. Only images and colour can be compared, and the screen warns “This PDF has no live text”. Ask for the PDF with editable text.

What is not checked yet

Grammar, terminology against a glossary, non-translatable terms, and tags or entities from XLIFF files are not checked yet.

A glossary you upload in Client lists is still read as context by the translation review. EasyQLab doesn’t judge style or tone: that stays with your reviewer, who now knows where to look.