DocHarbor
Engineer once.Deliver everywhere.
The engineering document platform. Whole packages, from scans to CAD drawings, delivered in another language with the layout intact.
Engineering documents still move by hand
Translating the words is quick. Rebuilding the layout so the package looks like the original is where the days go.
One package
- Scanned pages
- Digital PDFs
- Office files
- CAD drawings
Split the package by format
Translate the text
Check terms, numbers and codes
Rebuild tables, title blocks and drawing labels
Re-assemble and submit
Where the time goes: step 4. DocHarbor does it for you.
Contractors hire people just to do this
translate construction drawings, technical documents, site reports and daily office files
CCECC, Zambia · Chinese Translator · posted 2026-06-08
greatzambiajobs.comtranslating technical documents, reports, and contracts
CSCEC group, Indonesia · Mandarin Translator, site project · posted 2026-02-11
linkedin.com/posts/cscecindonesiaDrawing translations · Vendor manuals · bilingual document reviews
Turner & Townsend PMC, Indonesia RKEF project · accessed 2026-10-13
jobs.smartrecruiters.comSame pages, same layout, another language
Files from our pilot workspace, exactly as DocHarbor delivered them. Visual match: each page pair compared with the text blurred out, so it counts what moved (photos, graphics, colour blocks, rules), not which language the words are in.
The grid lands where it was
Red: the 26 ruling lines of a Chinese register specification. Blue: the same lines in DocHarbor's English output. They sit on top of each other.
Pages in, pages out. Every page break where the source had it.
Ruling lines in place across all 15 pages, within 0.6 pt.
Characters in one cell. English runs longer, so DocHarbor re-wraps it inside the same cell.
Register 6500, source and output
Every dimension, unchanged
text labels translated
dimension strings identical in text, position and height
geometry entities identical
Public floor plan (skymakerolof/dxf, MIT licence), real DocHarbor output; the Japanese output keeps the same 63 / 63.
Upload, compare, review, deliver
DocHarbor
A working replica of the DocHarbor workspace. Documents, pages and glossary terms are from the pilot workspace; the review item and glossary statuses are product demo data.
Six documents a minute
a minute
At that rate, DocHarbor could have delivered 0 documents since you opened this page.
| DocHarbor | Translation agencies | Site translators | DeepL, Azure | CAT tools | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed | 6 documents a minute | Sheet by sheet, by hand | By hand | Fast, one file at a time | At translator pace |
| Whole mixed package in one upload | ✓Yes | ✕Split by hand | ✕Split by hand | ✕File by file | ✕One format |
| CAD drawings, DWG and DXF | ✓Yes | Redrawn by hand | Redrawn by hand | ✕Not supported | Through plug-ins |
| Original layout kept | ✓99.2% visual match | Rebuilt by hand | Rebuilt by hand | Partly; scans may shift | Not their job |
| Numbers and units checked | ✓Per CAD entity | Proofreading | By eye | ✕No | Partly |
| Review trail | ✓Source, change, reason | ✕No | ✕No | ✕No | Partly |
completed pilot runs on real engineering files
of numbers kept when text inside images is translated
CAD drawings through the delivery gate
median machine time per real document
Speed: peak throughput of the current model pool, about 368 documents an hour; measured on one machine with four workers, 167 an hour. Other options: from each one's public documentation and the job ads above, not a head-to-head test. Pilot figures as of Sep 2026.
Engineeringwithout borders.
Chinese contractors build across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Their documents should cross borders as easily as their engineers do.
From translation to one engineering platform
Translation is the first module and it is built. Every module after it works on the same documents, in the same workspace.
Translation
Whole packages, from scans to CAD drawings, delivered in another language with the layout intact.
Document control
Every revision of every drawing, controlled across the project: who changed what, and which version is current.
IllustrationDrawing to 3D
Engineering drawings turned into 3D models automatically.
Illustration: the public floor plan above, its walls extrudedThrough to simulation
One platform from the first document through to CAE.
IllustrationBuilt for contractors' overseas offices
The people who use it
Site translators and document controllers in the overseas project office of a Chinese contractor.
The people who sign off
Project managers, who answer for the quality of every package the office submits.
Why it keeps coming back
Drawings are revised and re-issued many times per project. Every revision goes through DocHarbor again, and document control keeps each version.
Engineers who have done this work
NTU MSc Smart Manufacturing. Has worked upstream and downstream in manufacturing and energy. Built DocHarbor and runs the pilot.
MSc Civil Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hikvision Singapore.
PhD candidate, industrial control systems, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Aerospace master's student, Northwestern Polytechnical University.
Engineer once.Deliver everywhere.
Engineering without borders.
DocHarbor. Interface screens are a replica of the product; pilot files from the de-identified trial workspace.