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CAT tool to translate scanned documents? Thread poster: cristina villanueva
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Does anyone know a CAT tool which can be used to translate scanned documents? Trados does not allow it.
Thanks a lot
Cristina
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Tony M
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SITE LOCALIZER | AFAIK there isn't one | Dec 3, 2012 |
...at least not directly!
If you are referring to PDF documents, then you may wish to search for the various previous discussions on the subject of converting PDF > DOC, which is usually the process you need to go through before then translating using your CAT.
The same thing holds good for documents in image formats, and usually some kind of OCR processing will be necessary in order to recover editable text.
I believe I read somewhere the other day that on... See more ...at least not directly!
If you are referring to PDF documents, then you may wish to search for the various previous discussions on the subject of converting PDF > DOC, which is usually the process you need to go through before then translating using your CAT.
The same thing holds good for documents in image formats, and usually some kind of OCR processing will be necessary in order to recover editable text.
I believe I read somewhere the other day that one of the on-line CAT tools does actually offer this facility, but I have no idea how (or if!) it works. ▲ Collapse
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Heinrich Pesch 
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| Impossible without scanning | Dec 3, 2012 |
It is not for a CAT tool to scan images, there is dedicated software for this step.
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Egils Grikis
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Gerard de Noord
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| Wordfast Anywhere | Dec 3, 2012 |
You can give Wordfast Anywhere a try. It's free.
http://www.freetm.com/
Cheers,
Gerard
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Tony M
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SITE LOCALIZER | But there are snags... | Dec 3, 2012 |
Gerard de Noord wrote:
You can give Wordfast Anywhere a try.
I just did, and I have to say I was so not impressed.
It couldn't produce anything at all from an image-based PDF file (which I think is what Cristina was asking about), and even from a nice, clean DOC > PDF converted file, its OCR results were to say the least — unusable!
[Edited at 2012-12-03 21:31 GMT]
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esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | Different experience | Dec 4, 2012 |
Tony M wrote:
…and even from a nice, clean DOC > PDF converted file, its OCR results were to say the least — unusable!
My experience is opposite: I fed a PDF file to WFA once or twice, and the results were surprisingly good. Those were, however, files with quite simple layout. However, lack of control over the very recognition process is a minus. I prefer to manually markup pages to recognize.
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| setting the language in Wordfast Anywhere | Dec 4, 2012 |
Tony M wrote: Gerard de Noord wrote:
You can give Wordfast Anywhere a try. I just did, and I have to say I was so not impressed. It couldn't produce anything at all from an image-based PDF file (which I think is what Cristina was asking about), and even from a nice, clean DOC > PDF converted file, its OCR results were to say the least — unusable!
Did you create a dummy TM in which the source language matched the language of the PDF you wanted to OCR? This allows the OCR engine to use a dictionary for that language, when it encounters words that cannot be read easily.
Can you post the image-based PDF for which you obtained unusable results?
You may want to have a look at this:
http://wordfast.fi/blog/cat-tools/2011/10/12/converting-a-dead-pdf-to-word-with-wordfast-anywhere/
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Heinrich Pesch
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| Java run-time error | Dec 4, 2012 |
Dominique Pivard wrote: Tony M wrote: Gerard de Noord wrote:
You can give Wordfast Anywhere a try. I just did, and I have to say I was so not impressed. It couldn't produce anything at all from an image-based PDF file (which I think is what Cristina was asking about), and even from a nice, clean DOC > PDF converted file, its OCR results were to say the least — unusable! Did you create a dummy TM in which the source language matched the language of the PDF you wanted to OCR? This allows the OCR engine to use a dictionary for that language, when it encounters words that cannot be read easily. Can you post the image-based PDF for which you obtained unusable results? You may want to have a look at this: http://wordfast.fi/blog/cat-tools/2011/10/12/converting-a-dead-pdf-to-word-with-wordfast-anywhere/
I tried this out with a pdf I had converted easily with Finereader and translated in WFC, but after up-load WFA reported Java Run-time error.
So I have to take back my statement above "impossible", but a pdf-converter as part of a translation-environment tool is only as good as its weakest part.
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| Problem reported to the WFA list | Dec 4, 2012 |
Heinrich Pesch wrote:
I tried this out with a pdf I had converted easily with Finereader and translated in WFC, but after up-load WFA reported Java Run-time error.
I confirm there's a problem with the server right now. I reported it to the WFA list. Hopefully it will be fixed sooner than later.
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| FineReader OCR Online | Dec 4, 2012 |
Dear Colleagues,
You can use FineReader OCR Online:
http://finereader.abbyyonline.com/
Convert the file and then translate it in the tool of your choice.
HTH,
Yasmin
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Tom45 (X)
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| Scanned images? | Dec 10, 2012 |
cristina villanueva wrote:
Does anyone know a CAT tool which can be used to translate scanned documents? Trados does not allow it.
Thanks a lot
Cristina
Is this what you need: translating an image?
http://tinyurl.com/d8qamwe
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AllegroTrans
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| FINEREADER ONLINE | Jan 10, 2013 |
I tried this service once but found there is very little control over the process. It failed to reproduce diagrams properly.
I invested in ABBY Finereader (cost me less than 70 euros) and it is well worth it.
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Sarah McDowell
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| ABBYY finereader | Jan 10, 2013 |
AllegroTrans wrote:
I tried this service once but found there is very little control over the process. It failed to reproduce diagrams properly.
I invested in ABBY Finereader (cost me less than 70 euros) and it is well worth it.
Where can you find this for less than 70 euros? I have only seen this available for much higher prices.
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