Translating PDF docs

Dear fellow Translators,

tricky question: I have PDF docs to translate whose quality is just great. (I had hard copy and scanned them myself). However, when I open one of those in Trados.... the letters get all messed up. I do have IRIS and yes, I uninstalled it and installed it again, nothing changed. 

Could anybody please help? 

Thank you,

Rosaria 

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  • Hi ,

    I'd like to mention that Iris is not the panacea for all PDFs ( multifarious.filkin.com/.../ ) even if it does quite a good job in general. PDFs are a problematic format because there is so much that can go wrong with them. You mentioned you scanned them yourself... I don't know how knowledgeable you are in this are so forgive me for the basic questions, but:

    - did you scan as text or as an image? Iris will handle both but obviously one will be better than the other.
    - what software did you use for the scanning? If it was a decent OCR software why did you save to PDF when Word would probably have been a better choice?

    There are probably a lot of things to write about this but let's start with the two questions above.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

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  • Hi ,

    I'd like to mention that Iris is not the panacea for all PDFs ( multifarious.filkin.com/.../ ) even if it does quite a good job in general. PDFs are a problematic format because there is so much that can go wrong with them. You mentioned you scanned them yourself... I don't know how knowledgeable you are in this are so forgive me for the basic questions, but:

    - did you scan as text or as an image? Iris will handle both but obviously one will be better than the other.
    - what software did you use for the scanning? If it was a decent OCR software why did you save to PDF when Word would probably have been a better choice?

    There are probably a lot of things to write about this but let's start with the two questions above.

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!

    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

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