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Adobe InDesign users: How to extract text for import/alignment?

Keenan Cooper

Hello,

My company has some IDML file pairs that we'd like to leverage to our TMs. Is there any method/script/paid plugin that successfully extracts text to word/excel? 

Thank you.
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  • 0 in reply to Paul
    Thanx for your response Paul. I'll give that a try. The best option in lui of a response has been to put both language pairs into trados and then export both of them as excel using the plugin. Then they can either be aligned manually (though alignment gets laggy with large files) or, if the pairs are balanced nicely, can be fixed a bit in excel as a bilingual file and then imported using bilingual excel. Also, by tweaking the "file types" settings to filter out IDML meta data junk, then using the advanced filter to filter out "numbers only" and repetions keeping first occurances only then locking out those things, manuals and catalogs with only unique pairs. Only problem is the segmentation and line breaks of Japanese doesn't match english so I'm left fixing some missing pairs. But is the best option now. Will try to export an xml tho.