Connecting to Trados Studio from an external script

Question

Hi everyone. I am new to using Trados Studio and also new to developing with Trados Studio, so please forgive me for asking a basic question. 
 Does anyone know if it is possible to connect to Trados Studio 2019 from, for example, a Python script? 
 It looks like this was possible with Trados Workbench according to the SDL Trados 2007 Desktop SDK, but as far as I can tell this method doesn't seem to be possible with later versions of Trados Studio. 
 The current Trados Studio API documentation seems to focus on building internal plug-ins for Trados Studio rather than connecting to a running instance of Trados studio from separate code. 
 Specifically, I am interested in getting Trados Studio to calculate a matching rate between two Word documents, or between a single Word document and a collection of translation memories. 
 Any help regarding this would be hugely appreciated. 
 Best regards, 
 Jon

Patrick Andrew Hartnett · Answer

Hi Jon Lee , let me see if I understood correctly what you are trying to achieve. Create a script to perform the following type of automation 
 Method 1: 
 
 Extract the segments from two documents. 
 Perform a comparison against the segments of both documents to identify the differences & calculate a matching rate, edit distance? 
 Calculate a document level score (matching rate), based on the edit distance calculated from each of the segment? 
 
 Method 2: 
 
 Extract the segment from a document 
 Extract the Translation Units from a Translation Memory 
 Perform the same comparison results as with Method 1

It should be feasible to execute a command line script from Python. However, you would still need to work with the Trados Studio APIs in developing the code to achieve this. I would recommend that you create a command line script that can be executed from Python with parameters. Make reference to the Trados Studio Sample Projects to understand how to work with the various APIs, as well as the relevant documentation that you already made reference to Trados Studio 2019 APIs . 
 You can also find some good examples from the public repository here: RWS Community . One project in particular Post-Edit Compare will help you understand how to read & compare the segments, generating a matching rate (segment level)

Paul · Answer

Evzen Polenka 
 Nice to see you back... your ears must have been burning as I'm part way through an article where I mention STraSAK as it's still the best Trados related Powershell repository I've seen anyone sharing. It is out of date as you suspected as we've had considerable changes since 2021, and we haven't done any work specifically on the Powershell Tookit as you were pretty much the only person pushing for it. The APIs are well used these days and seem to suffice the needs of users automating tasks. 
 However, I do think it would be good to look at this again and update it. I'm sure many people could take advantage of it as it is much easier than full blown "GUI-centric" development, and faster. 
 I also wanted to respond to you because I think you must have had this page saved somewhere as this is actually an archived group so nobody will see it unless they have saved it too... which clearly some do. 
 I'll move this over to the appropriate location as it is a useful thread, and will add you to that group just in case you feel like a little light relief from localization retirement.

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