What is the Transliterate Fields step?
Transliterate Fields is a Workflow Action step that takes name and address fields as input and returns romanized (Latin-alphabet) versions of those fields as output variables. It’s useful when downstream systems, screening tools, or manual reviewers expect Latin characters, but the underlying data was extracted in a non-Latin script — for example, from a passport or ID printed in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, or Cyrillic.
Transliteration runs in-process — there’s no call to an external API — and the step automatically detects which script an input field is written in before converting it.
To write the romanized output back to a field on the Inquiry, Account, or another object, pair a Transliterate Fields step with a downstream Update Object step.
Supported scripts
Transliteration is currently supported for:
- Chinese (Pinyin romanization)
- Japanese
- Korean
- Arabic — romanized following the ICAO passport standard for Latin transliteration
- Cyrillic — Russian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian use dedicated mappings; other Cyrillic-script languages use standard Cyrillic-to-Latin conversion
- Georgian
- Armenian
- Devanagari
Hebrew and Thai are not yet supported, since both scripts are typically written without vowel marks in digital text, which makes reliable automated romanization difficult.
How do you add a Transliterate Fields step?
- Navigate to the Dashboard, and click on Workflows > All Workflows.
- Find and click on the workflow you want to edit, or Create a new workflow.
- Click on + when hovering over a circle to add an Action step.
- Use the Find Action select box to select the Transliterate Fields step.
- Choose the input field(s) containing the name or address data you want to transliterate.
- Configure the step’s output variables, which will hold the romanized values.
- (Optional) Add a downstream Update Object step to write the output variables back onto the Inquiry, Account, or other object.
- Close the Action. You’ll have to Save and Publish the workflow to begin using it.