| Pages in topic: [1 2] > | Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009 Thread poster: David Turnbull
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I have been caught out so many times after translating a large document and then getting an error message when "saving target as..." that I save it regularly during the course of translation.
Now I have a Word file supplied by an agency. It is the result of OCR-ing a pdf. When I try to "save target as..." even before translating, I get the error message "an error occurred whilst writing the document."
Any suggestions, PLEASE?
| | | | Jerzy Czopik 
Germany
Local time: 07:05
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Repair the Word file | Oct 15, 2011 |
OCR files are the worst you can get.
Open the file in Word. Press CTRL+A to select the whole text.
Press CTRL+D, chose ONE font (Arial or whatever), press ok.
Press CTRL+D again, go to Character Spacing tab and select Scale "100%". For Spacing select Normal, and deselect "Kerning".
Save the file as a different Word version. Close Word. Reopen Word, reopen file, save in the same version as previous.
If that does not help, open file in OpenOffice and save as Word. The... See more OCR files are the worst you can get.
Open the file in Word. Press CTRL+A to select the whole text.
Press CTRL+D, chose ONE font (Arial or whatever), press ok.
Press CTRL+D again, go to Character Spacing tab and select Scale "100%". For Spacing select Normal, and deselect "Kerning".
Save the file as a different Word version. Close Word. Reopen Word, reopen file, save in the same version as previous.
If that does not help, open file in OpenOffice and save as Word. Then try again. ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009" | Oct 15, 2011 |
Thank you.
Unfortunately the first solution doesn't work
And The OpenOffice route just causes Trados to crash
Can you suggest anything else - maybe pasting sections of the text one by one into a new Word document?
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 07:05
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| Unfortunately not... | Oct 15, 2011 |
without in fact seein the file I can't tell you anything more.
The file is the culprit here, certainly - automatically OCRed files are really problematic.
So my best solution would be asking the customer for a workable file or the source PDF and converting that one myself.
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| Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009" | Oct 15, 2011 |
Thank you, but I'm afraid your suggestions are not practicable. How does the agency or anyone know what is a workable file in Trados?
I don't have OCR software and since there are very few on the market that do Russian, I could spend $500 and still be in the same position.
I like Trados but this seems to me to be a weakness. If it can convert a Word file into SDLXIFF, it should be able to convert it back to Word, especially if it's untouched!
It should be able... See more Thank you, but I'm afraid your suggestions are not practicable. How does the agency or anyone know what is a workable file in Trados?
I don't have OCR software and since there are very few on the market that do Russian, I could spend $500 and still be in the same position.
I like Trados but this seems to me to be a weakness. If it can convert a Word file into SDLXIFF, it should be able to convert it back to Word, especially if it's untouched!
It should be able to come up with a target file of a translation, even if there are errors with tags ▲ Collapse
| | | | Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 07:05
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| You do miss the point here | Oct 15, 2011 |
David Turnbull wrote:
Thank you, but I'm afraid your suggestions are not practicable. How does the agency or anyone know what is a workable file in Trados?
I don't have OCR software and since there are very few on the market that do Russian, I could spend $500 and still be in the same position.
I like Trados but this seems to me to be a weakness. If it can convert a Word file into SDLXIFF, it should be able to convert it back to Word, especially if it's untouched!
It should be able to come up with a target file of a translation, even if there are errors with tags
To start with your wrote "Now I have a Word file supplied by an agency". So not Studio has converted the file, but the agency.
"How does the agency or anyone know what is a workable file in Trados?"
This is the job of the agency. If they order a job in Trados, they should provide workable files. The problem with OCR is a very well known one - there are thousands of ways how to deal with. I would just start with reading the text with OCR and saving as plain text. Then apply formatting and the file will be workable.
"I could spend $500 and still be in the same position."
Look at the Abbyy Fine Reader, a Russian software, a perfect one to me. And the price is very decent, I think around 150 EUR, but you may be lucky to get it even cheaper.
Recently I have used it to OCR a quite complicated tabled structure on 10 pages of a Polish document and was able to restore not just the text but also the whole formatting from the PDF.
Usually I would have used the "plain text and applying formatting on my own" solution, but in this case I decided to try to use Abbyy (ok, with manual corrections) to keep formatting.
Nevertheless, it is naive for anyone to hope an automatic process will deliver you perfect and workable results without any manual influence.
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...although I do not know what the problem is:
In Word, go to File/Open, browse for the file to translate, select the file, but instead of clicking on „Open”, click on the little arrow next to the „Open” tab and when the dropdown menu appears, select „Open and Repair”.
Perhaps this may help.
| | | | | Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009FA | Oct 15, 2011 |
Thank you.
Of course a lot of what you say is very useful and I am always happy to learn. It's good to get a recommendation on OCR software too.
However, I disagree that I am "missing the point". My point was that Trados takes a Word file - from whatever origin, OCR or not- and converts it to a SDLXLIFF file. It does not come up with an error message at this stage. Then you ask it to convert it back to Word, without having interfered with the file in any way, and it... See more Thank you.
Of course a lot of what you say is very useful and I am always happy to learn. It's good to get a recommendation on OCR software too.
However, I disagree that I am "missing the point". My point was that Trados takes a Word file - from whatever origin, OCR or not- and converts it to a SDLXLIFF file. It does not come up with an error message at this stage. Then you ask it to convert it back to Word, without having interfered with the file in any way, and it can't. That is my point ▲ Collapse
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Jerzy Czopik
Germany
Local time: 07:05
Member (2003)
Polish to German
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| The source file is corrupted | Oct 15, 2011 |
While you are indeed right, that there could very well be a warning while opening the file and converting to SDLXLIFF, this does not change anything at the fact, that the file you are trying to translate is already damaged.
I might be able to repair the file, so if you wish send me the file to jerzy at czopik dot com.
| | | | | Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009 | Oct 15, 2011 |
Thank you Istvan.
Unfortunately it didn't work. So far, I've had some success with copying and pasting without formatting. but I've only tried part of the document so far
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I fully agree with you, most CAT tools once a file is imported manage to export it. I really consider this a shortcoming from Trados what you supposedly gain in speed, etc. is just lost when you have to spend time debugging what should have been right in the first place.
| | | | | Failing to save target in Trados Studio 2009 | Oct 15, 2011 |
Thank you for your kind offer, Jerzy. Before spending your time on it , I will try a few things myself. I may well come back and accept your offer.
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Jaroslaw Michalak
Poland
Local time: 07:05
Member (2004)
English to Polish
SITE LOCALIZER | Is the file format supported or not? | Oct 16, 2011 |
Jerzy Czopik wrote:
The file is the culprit here, certainly
No, really... If the file opens in Word and can be saved in Word, then it should be processed in Trados. There might be lots of tags, there might be formatting problems etc., but it should be saved, period. If it is not possible, then the faulty file filter is "the culprit", not the file.
I do not remember the correct wording from the marketing site, but does Trados claim "support for Microsoft Word files" or "support for select Word files"? Or maybe "support for Word files Trados believes worthy of saving"?
| | | | Richard Hill
Mexico
Local time: 00:05
Member (2011)
Spanish to English
| "Disguised" RTF? | Oct 16, 2011 |
Hi David
I had a problem a while ago where Nora came to the rescue and I wonder if it will help in this case?
Nora Diaz wrote:
...our original file for this entire issue was a PDF that I ran through OCR, then saved as Word 2007, then added to an existing project in Studio. But... I have just today realized that my OCR software (ABBYY Finereader 11) doesn't save an actual DOCX file when you choose Save as Word, but a "disguised" RTF
So in short, the MS Word file resulting from the OCR may be a "disguised" RTF (so it won't load into Trados), so before loading the file into Trados, open the file in MS Word and resave as either a Word 2003 or Word 2007 file then open the new file in trados.
I hope this solves your issue
| | | | Richard Hill
Mexico
Local time: 00:05
Member (2011)
Spanish to English
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