Dear community members,
Recently I purchased the SDL Studio 2019 for the Armenian language translations. Unfortunately OCR is not able to recognize the language the output text is unreadable.
During the purchase process we extra asked if SDL 2019 supports the Armenian language, the answer was YES.
Where do I need to tell SDL OCR to treat the PDF documents correctly?
Thank you beforehand,
Arpine.
Dear Paul, thanks for the suggestion.
Unfortunately after installation the IRIS plugin nothing is improved. Do I installed it correctly?
thank you for your support.
I created a couple of tests... one with a text based PDF and one with an image based PDF. The results were interesting:
Text based
Image based
Which is exactly the problem you encountered. It seems we do not support OCR for Armenian. So I took a quick look at this site:
https://convertio.co/de/ocr/armenian/
That did a remarkable job... I think! The OCR'd file from this website opens in Studio completely tag free and like this:
Perhaps this is a viable alternative for you? Does the text make sense? Note the original was the result of google translate from an English newspaper article!
Paul Filkin | RWS Group
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I created a couple of tests... one with a text based PDF and one with an image based PDF. The results were interesting:
Text based
Image based
Which is exactly the problem you encountered. It seems we do not support OCR for Armenian. So I took a quick look at this site:
https://convertio.co/de/ocr/armenian/
That did a remarkable job... I think! The OCR'd file from this website opens in Studio completely tag free and like this:
Perhaps this is a viable alternative for you? Does the text make sense? Note the original was the result of google translate from an English newspaper article!
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
Dear Paul,
Thank you for confirming my experience with the SDL OCR.
Unfortunately it is not an option to use the online services for the documents, they are confidential.
I am feeling me fooled and tricked by SDL chat support. Before purchase I have extra asked several times: Is SDL supporting FULLY Armenian language PDF OCR or not, the answer was YES,sure , which is simply not true!
Thanks to Steven (he suggested ABBY), now I know I choose me the wrong tool for the Armenian language.
I hope the SDL developers will read this thread and will add support for Armenian in the next update, or remove totally the list of unsupported languages. This will prevent other users to be fooled.
Warm greetings from Berlin,
Arpine,
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