CAT Tool- SDL Trados Studio 2009 Thread poster: Arnaud Caudal
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Hi everyone,
Can I use SDL Trados Studio 2009 to gtranslate Pdf documents.
Thanks
| | | | Jan Willem van Dormolen (X) 
Netherlands
Local time: 14:41
English to Dutch
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or rather: yes, but Studio 2009 first converts the document to Word, and this conversion is as good or bad as most other PDF-Word-converters. That is to say, if it's pure, straight text, it'll do a reasonable job. But if there are columns, frames, footers or anything of the sort, it'll be a mess.... See more or rather: yes, but Studio 2009 first converts the document to Word, and this conversion is as good or bad as most other PDF-Word-converters. That is to say, if it's pure, straight text, it'll do a reasonable job. But if there are columns, frames, footers or anything of the sort, it'll be a mess.
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Thanks!
You have confirmed my fears. So what is the best software to use with pdf files?
| | | | Jan Willem van Dormolen (X)
Netherlands
Local time: 14:41
English to Dutch
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| That's what I would like to know too... | Jul 7, 2011 |
I've tried several, and they all give more or less the same results. Others might have been luckier.
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| yes and no... | Jul 7, 2011 |
basically what the others say... but usually when I receive a PDF file i'd just ask my agency or client to convert it into WORD version and send that to me, with exceptions for smaller projects of less than 300 words (i.e. certificates, etc.)
| | | | | | | | Peter Linton (X)
Local time: 13:41
Swedish to English
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Arnaud Caudal wrote:
So what is the best software to use with pdf files?
Not cheap, but OmniPage will convert both text files and graphics files (using OCR, Optical Character Recognition). In my experience, very good, and I have just ordered version 18.
Other people swear by ABBYY FineReader. Incidentally, that is the technology behind WordFast Anywhere.
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MikeTrans
Germany
Local time: 14:41
Italian to German
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| Adobe Acrobat... | Jul 8, 2011 |
is the only software which handles PDF files correctly, or one of its direct tools.
Guess why!
Mike
| | | | Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 14:41
Member (2004)
English to Polish
SITE LOCALIZER | Not really... | Jul 8, 2011 |
MikeTrans wrote:
is the only software which handles PDF files correctly, or one of its direct tools.
Guess why!
That is incorrect. The conversion tools available in Acrobat give much worse results than OCR done e.g. in FineReader (admittedly, if you put more effort into it).
Even as far as readers are concerned, many users prefer 3rd-party solutions (usually because they are much faster than Adobe Reader).
By the way, PDF is an open standard, so there really no "secret knowledge" or "backdoor shortcuts" which Adobe could use to get advantage over the competition.
| | | | MikeTrans
Germany
Local time: 14:41
Italian to German
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| Too quick in judging this one... | Jul 8, 2011 |
Jabberwock wrote:
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By the way, PDF is an open standard, so there really no "secret knowledge" or "backdoor shortcuts" which Adobe could use to get advantage over the competition.
Jabberwock,
I was a little fast with my reply, forgetting the 'open standard'. My impression was that a proprietary software should fundamentally work best, but nowadays with so much add-on software or plugins etc., I must admit this is just a false statement.
Maybe the constant advertisement pointing of Adobe Reader towards Adobe Acrobat has
influenced my opinion..
Personally, I find that AABBYY Fine Reader v.9 (there must be newer ones) does a very fine job, with a reasonable expense for the software.
Mike
| | | | Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:41
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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| Acrobat is great at "good PDFs"... | Aug 31, 2011 |
I use ABBYY myself, but I do find that if it is a good PDF, Acrobat will sometimes produce better results than ABBYY.
I'm testing OmniPage now, to see if it is any better than either of the above.
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mirekk
Local time: 14:41
English to Polish
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| ABBYY FineReader 10 | Sep 1, 2011 |
I use AFR 10 Pro and find it very useful. It does a great job of converting pdf to doc and has great tools.
Anyway post-processing (removing sof-return symbols, reformatting text fields, etc.) of converted files is a bitch Wish there were tools for that...
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