how you extract the text from EPS files

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Hi Paul 
 Could you let us know how you extract the text from .EPS files into Trados studio? 
 A client has requested a translation for a 500-page technical manual in Framemaker linked to EPS files. 
 I would be interested in knowing if there is any script you use to extract them automatically, but it would surly be great to have file types for these formats.

Paul · Answer

Balachander D 
 I think the only way to do this is to open the EPS file in something like Adobe Illustrator and do the work there. I don't think the text is saved as text in a way it can be extracted. So you'd have to delete the existing text in Illustrator and then add in what you wanted instead.

Phil Elliott · Answer

Balachander D 
 An EPS file is one used as an output option from many high end publishing systems and was used to either send to a printer that supported EPS output (or often to a commercial printer for printing), or used as the interim format before creating a PDF document (not generally needed anymore as most applications can go from layout direct to PDF). These EPS files are often very large and contain a whole load of information to do with page layout/breaks etc. etc. as well as the actual text/image information to be printed and as Paul says, are not really a format to play around with for translation. 
 Based on this, I would suggest that the best option would be to ask your client for a copy of the FrameMaker .MIF file which you can then work with directly in SDL Trados Studio. Any other option is likely to require a lot of additional work to get the output in a format you can work with or use. 
 Phil.

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