Creating target file

Question

I'm having troubles creating the target file. The original file is a scanned pdf. I created an individual document, translated, checked spelling and QA, saved target as and then I opened but an error message appeared. "can't open because there are problems with the content".

Paul · Accepted Answer

Hi Laura Osorio , 
 
Scanned PDF files can be notoriously problematic because it depends how "clean" a job was made of the conversion. It makes sense to "cleanup" the DOCX/DOC file you are working on before you handle it in Studio. If the file you have is a PDF, and if you don't have another tool for PDF conversion, then do the following: 
 
1. Open the PDF in Studio as a single file project 
2. Look in the same folder as the PDF and you will find a DOCX in there now. 
3. Clean up the DOCX and translate the DOCX instead of the PDF 
 
If the file is already a DOCX then clean up the DOCX a bit more before translating it. 
 
By clean up I mean follow the advice in this blog entry from Emma Goldsmith : 
 
 signsandsymptomsoftranslation.com/.../ 
 
Or take a look at this app, transtools, that does a great job of cleaning up a docx ready for translation: 
 
 appstore.sdl.com/.../ 
 
Regards 
 
Paul

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Creating target file