Unable to create a TM/to align documents

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Hi, 
 
 I am unable to align any documents whatsoever in Trados Studio 2024. The source file isn't recognized and stays greyed out.... Can anybody help me?

Daniel Hug · Answer

Jennyfer Poirier 
 Yes, you need all text in both documents to be machine-readable, i.e. normal text, not images containing text. There are many ways to convert images containing text to machine-readable text (&ldquo;OCR&rdquo;), but you have to be careful if the content is confidential because most solutions work via the cloud. Some reserve the right to store your data to &ldquo;improve their services&rdquo;. 
 Adobe Acrobat Pro does a good job of converting PDF to DOCX, including OCR (optical character recognition). The standard Trados solution is this free app: https://appstore.rws.com/Plugin/Trados 197 
 I don't use this app, but it seems to be working well. Note that if you use OCR it's really advisable to tidy up the DOCX (Word) document before you use it in Trados Studio, so that line breaks are correct, spelling mistakes are sorted out and unnecessary format changes are removed. Might even be worth converting to plain text for alignment purposes. (The documentation to the app linked to above is a good start.)

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Unable to create a TM/to align documents

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