overlay text as an image in source + text from the target language

Question

I introduce an input PDF document in Dutch to be translated into French as the target language. 
 After extraction (file > Microsoft as a target), Trados 2022 overlays the initial PDF document as a full image (text included) + the translated into French text (target language). 
 
 
 
 
 Both languages are therefore mixed up : one text coming from the image text from the PDF and the other one coming from the target language, the text source as an image overlays the translated version which makes the use of the new version impossible. 
 
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Jesús Prieto · Answer

Aurelio Morano 
 Can't you just delete the image in the target document? 
 The recommended procedure when translating PDFs is to edit the Source Word document (with the extracted text) or create it manually, and only then open this edited Word document in Trados Studio. Since you have it already translated, you can edit the target document.

Paul · Answer

Aurelio Morano 
 Aurelio Morano said: The procedure was perfectly working on 2019. 
 The engine has completely changed - forced to do this due to significantly spiralling costs of the solution we used previously. 
 I suggest you always convert to Word first, tidy it up (which you would have to do in the target file if the file was a PDF translated) and then translate the Word file. This will be a significantly better translation experience anyway and the target will need less tidy up... only possible changes due to language expansion/contraction.

Paul · Answer

Aurelio Morano 
 If you look in the source language folder of your project the file has probably already been converted to a Word file. This always happened as Studio actually translated the Word conversion anyway. So just take that Word file, make sure it's ok, and if you're happy translate that. 
 Shouldn't be too much doing it by yourself and this was always a better solution for anything but the simplest PDF files even in the past. 
 There is also an App on the appstore that will do this conversion for you, and it will even OCR any images within the document: appstore.rws.com/.../197

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overlay text as an image in source + text from the target language

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