There is an extra reason why removing a password comes in handy: sometimes PDFs have been “protected” so you cannot search for words in them even when they contain plain text. Otherwise none of the tools here above will do a good job. When you receive a password protected file, you need to remove the password first. You can use Translator Tools Document Cleaner or CodeZapper, or you can do it manually using this guideline. As long as all the clutter is in, you will only see low fuzzy matches. You definitely need to remove the clutter before you apply your TMs on the job.
#WORDFAST PRO 4.0 CODE#
One of the problems of using CATs when translating OCR’d text and PDF’s converted to Word is the code clutter you may end up with. What you do for free, is often not appreciated as it should be. So make sure you quote and get paid for this. The risk of converting PDF yourself is that you’ll waste a lot of time. These language variants/plugins know more fonts and more character sets, and they come with a dictionary helping the OCR process itself. They are no longer as expensive as they used to be, and they can support many languages. If Word does not do a good job, ABBYY Fine Reader and Nuance OmniPage are definitely worth trying as well.
#WORDFAST PRO 4.0 PDF#
If the PDF contains text as images, you have to convert that yourself ( see a previous post), but when the PDF contains text, MS Word does a real good job for many languages: it is capable of fixing line endings, something many other tools cannot do If there are a lot of hard hyphens, a search & replace all will solve that issue.
Since I have MS Word 2013 (and now 2016) I prefer that tool. Some customers forbid me to use online services, and MS-Word is an off-line tool if you don’t use the OneDrive cloud. You could also use CloudConvert, a tool I basically use for all file conversions. The way to do this, I explained in a previous post. If your CAT can’t open the PDF, you should convert the PDF to DOCX yourself.Ībusing Google Docs just to convert files, also works quite well with PDF.
#WORDFAST PRO 4.0 CRACK#
Even though I can crack most PDF files, I always find pleasure in extracting text the stupid way: it allows me to see how much problems there are in the document, and I know what I need to check later on. In all other cases it depends on the virtual printer that has been used to generate the PDF. Only if the PDF was generated through XSL-FO (so from an XML format) this text extraction goes smoothly. You will, in many cases, end up with a plain text document where lines are ending with a hard return inside a paragraph, where words at the end of lines are split with a hard hyphen… Messy is the best word to describe that kind of output. If you want to understand how tricky it can be to extract text from PDF, try it for yourself.
You need to check though that all text has been found and filtered. You have no control on what these filters are doing, but when it is working, you have a no-brainer solution. I guess some other CATs are also capable of opening some PDFs. As far as I know SDL Studio, Alchemy Publisher, MateCat and Wordfast Pro use a third-party PDF-to-DOC conversion tool that they have integrated as a filter. I like how Jost Zetzsche described it in his 176th ToolKit newsletter. Can your translation tool (CAT) handle it?įirst thing to try is opening the file straight in your CAT. Sometimes your customer only has a PDF, and go have to get your hands dirty, no matter what. Rule number one is always to ask for the source document and work on that. We all know we should not translate PDF files.
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