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
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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The problem with scanned PDFs will persist - unless you really use a decent OCR solution with a manual process. An automated conversion will never bring the results you need for smooth translation. So instead of trusting any software (including Studio) to convert a PDF, do that with OCR - like Abbyy FineReader. In my opinion this is one of the best - if not the best - available OCR solutions on the market.
As far I understand, what Adobe is doing, is creating a Word file out of your scanned files, but it does not recognize the text inside. So what you get, is Word with images. Am I right? Word with images is even worse than a scanned PDF, as Studio treats such Word file as any other Word file, where images are simply treated as such - images, with no translatable text on it.
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When asking for help here, please be as accurate as possible. Please always remember to give the exact version of product used and all possible error messages received. The better you describe your problem, the better help you will get.
Want to learn more about Trados Studio? Visit the Community Hub. Have a good idea to make Trados Studio better? Publish it here.
The problem with scanned PDFs will persist - unless you really use a decent OCR solution with a manual process. An automated conversion will never bring the results you need for smooth translation. So instead of trusting any software (including Studio) to convert a PDF, do that with OCR - like Abbyy FineReader. In my opinion this is one of the best - if not the best - available OCR solutions on the market.
As far I understand, what Adobe is doing, is creating a Word file out of your scanned files, but it does not recognize the text inside. So what you get, is Word with images. Am I right? Word with images is even worse than a scanned PDF, as Studio treats such Word file as any other Word file, where images are simply treated as such - images, with no translatable text on it.
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When asking for help here, please be as accurate as possible. Please always remember to give the exact version of product used and all possible error messages received. The better you describe your problem, the better help you will get.
Want to learn more about Trados Studio? Visit the Community Hub. Have a good idea to make Trados Studio better? Publish it here.
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