Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: I have translated manually 2 million words, no CAT tools. Best software to take advantage from it?
Poster: Philippe Locquet
Post title: Filters
[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
My favorite is [url removed] it is free [/quote]
What's the actual difference between the solution mentioned by you and the one mentioned by me?
Does either one of them perform better?
EDIT: I think that I can answer that question myself.
Your solution is simpler, but you have to paste your source and target text. I think this will potentially lead to less accurate alignment results (since paragraph styles like header, footnote etc. are lost). Will test :).
EDIT 2: First attempt failed. There is some cryptic text in the input boxes:
I got this error message:
[quote]3493 source characters found; 3564 target characters found.
Both source and target text should have more than 4,000 characters (~ 2 pages) - try again![/quote]
Does this mean that the documents need to have at least 4K chars? Why on earth???
[Edited at 2022-05-30 06:51 GMT] [/quote]
I have used both and I just stated my preference, if you like better Auto Aligner, nothing wrong with that. The one on wordfast.net has active smart filters and copy-pasting forces the user to actually open the file, which tends to help find potential issues. It gives the option to select only portions of a file and leave out vast portions of tables that some may want to leave out from their TM. In any case alignment always end up being time consuming if you want to get something clean.
Topic: I have translated manually 2 million words, no CAT tools. Best software to take advantage from it?
Poster: Philippe Locquet
Post title: Filters
[quote]Hans Lenting wrote:
[quote]Philippe Locquet wrote:
My favorite is [url removed] it is free [/quote]
What's the actual difference between the solution mentioned by you and the one mentioned by me?
Does either one of them perform better?
EDIT: I think that I can answer that question myself.
Your solution is simpler, but you have to paste your source and target text. I think this will potentially lead to less accurate alignment results (since paragraph styles like header, footnote etc. are lost). Will test :).
EDIT 2: First attempt failed. There is some cryptic text in the input boxes:
I got this error message:
[quote]3493 source characters found; 3564 target characters found.
Both source and target text should have more than 4,000 characters (~ 2 pages) - try again![/quote]
Does this mean that the documents need to have at least 4K chars? Why on earth???
[Edited at 2022-05-30 06:51 GMT] [/quote]
I have used both and I just stated my preference, if you like better Auto Aligner, nothing wrong with that. The one on wordfast.net has active smart filters and copy-pasting forces the user to actually open the file, which tends to help find potential issues. It gives the option to select only portions of a file and leave out vast portions of tables that some may want to leave out from their TM. In any case alignment always end up being time consuming if you want to get something clean.