PDF Translations And The Issues That May Arise

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PDF Translations And The Issues That May Arise
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PDF Translations and Their Problems
CAT tools are crucial for the translation of text
documents, and they work through four main
functions. They come in handy when you receive a
PDF document and you need to translate it to
another format. An example of the most used CAT
tools is memo Q This article highlights the
process of PDF translations and the problems
commonly encountered.
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Definition of PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF for Adobe is the
standard file format that is used to share files
and documents regardless of the software. PDF
files always have a similar layout on all
computers despite the local settings. Most
documents sent for translation are in PDF, which,
for translators, is not an ideal file format. PDF
is a formatted document, and the original format
of the document can be in Microsoft Word, or
Adobe In-design Another format is the PDF scanned
format.
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Converting PDF to Microsoft Word Document
CAT tools like memoQ cannot convert scanned PDFs.
You will need other applications to do so. These
programs come in handy if your file is in regular
PDF format and memoQ convertor cannot produce the
document required. The applications will vary
according the language and content types. You
will have to try several before you settle on the
one that suits your needs.
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PDF Translations And Conversion
Most files sent for translation come in PDF
format. You can ask the sender to share the
original file with you. If you receive it, you
will avoid a lot of unnecessary steps. If you
cannot convert it, you will need to install a CAT
tool. MemoQ comes with an in-built PDF to Word
converter, which will give you very excellent
results. You will, however be required to save
the converted file in Microsoft Word. Converted
PDF documents will also give you a lot of tags
and line breaks. In case the in-built converter
of memoQ does not suit your needs, you can try to
use OCR tools such as VueScan, Capture2Text,
gImage Reader and Free-OCR to Word. In case these
applications do not meet your standards, Dave
Turners excellent CodeZapper macros will give
you the options of processing the files and
removing tags.
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PDF Document Alignment And Monolingual PDF Files

• Using memoQs in-built PDF filter may be worth
  it, especially when aligning translated documents
  or with monolingual PDF files. This is because
  memoQ feature will turn a PDF file into text. In
  addition, the filter will not give tags or will
  not give line breaks. To do this, follow these
  steps
• Open the memoQ application
• Go to LiveDocs and select for instance, Add
  alignment pair.
• Click on Add source documents.
• Go to and click on Change filter and
  configuration
• Under General, choose Import by converting to
  Plain Text.
• Do the same with target documents
• PDF translations to other formats can be tricky
  at times. There are several applications that can
  make this process simple for you and give you
  desired results as discussed above

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