#OMEGAT PDF HOW TO#
#OMEGAT PDF PDF#

On at least one order I ended up typing in the source file. I have also found using OpenOffice Draw terribly slow and frustrating.

#OMEGAT PDF PDF#

Sometimes my OCR software will not accept the pdf file (I have not yet had to process jpegs). If they felt unable to pay the higher rate, I would just have to turn down the work I explain to the client about the necessary preprocessing and charge them at a higher word rate. I then closely proofread / check my source files against the original file.Īll this is very time consuming but in some case works quite well. Where there are a lot of complex graphics, I set the OCR software to produce text only, unformatted. If they cannot, I use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to get a doc or txt source file, tidy it up to match the original as close a possible and run a spell check to fix spelling mistakes. First I ask them if they can send me a doc, rtf or txt file.

#OMEGAT PDF HOW TO#

Search in the forum archives for 'converting PDFs,' and you'll find plenty more advice.ĭoes any of you know how to convert scanned files to make them editable?Ĭlients often send me scanned pdf files as source files. I now take the advice of various people from the OmegaT group, and convert the PDF to plain text, then reformat it. For a certificate, or anything with lots of graphics and tables and text boxes, I have not found it satisfactory. (The better, more expensive tool for OCR is ABBYY Finereader.) For a rather simply formatted document, this works okay. You have the option of converting the file through an OCR procedure, which works the best. I use ABBYY PDF Transformer, which converts PDFs to. You can convert PDFs to plain text using Adobe Reader, but the results can be quite poor, especially for something with complex formatting, like a certificate. No CAT tool can work directly with PDFs, to my knowledge. There is discussion of this in various other forums in the archives, as it is not an issue for OmegaT as such. And it is impossible to use OmegaT with those files, so it takes a lot of time anyway.ĭoes any of you know how to convert scanned files to make them editable? ▲ Collapse However, it works very slowly - if the file is big, I have to wait for 20 minutes until the program converts it. I am working with Open Office and in the latest version there is an option to edit. but I've had also some quite big files (scanned), and it really tires me out. If it is only a certificate on one page then it's fine. The problem is that it takes a lot of time to translate those scanned files - I have a source text which is not editable and I have to create a translation as a text document. He said that it is possible, but the result won't be as good as I would like it to be. My brother is a programmer, so I asked him if I can convert those files somehow. For example, lots of different documents are sent to me as.

I am working as a freelancer, so sometimes I don't really 'see' those documents which I have to translate. I would be grateful for some help concerning the following:

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