Force Trados to assume two columns layout for a PDF file

Hello

I have Trados Studio 2019 and want to translate a PDF file. This PDF file layout is entirely two columns, each column begin at top of page and continues all long to the bottom, my problem is that by converting this file to translatable format, the boundary between the columns will not correctly identified and goes from the middle of the first column to the second column.

 I know that this file has no middle length column, is there a setting to tell this to Trados? 

A lot of PDF files has such layout.

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  • You open the PDF in your OCR and go page by page, checking the layout assumed by the software.

    And please pardon my French, but dealing with PDFs is the most frequent asked question in any translator forum I know. There are so many post and nearly essays about it and why it is not possible to deal with these like with any other editable format. PDF has been invented by Adobe for one purpose only: to be viewed in the same way on all computers. NOT for editing. So expecting any tool on the earth to easily deal with PDF is at least naive. Yes, dealing with PDF is a lot of effort and this will not change. PDF is not for editing. Period.

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