Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: Garbled text from PDF in Studio 2022
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: These look like OCR errors
[quote]toasty wrote:
Any way to fix this without converting to Word first? [/quote]
There is no way to fix this without converting to Word. In fact, converting to Word is what Trados does as well. Trados tries to perform OCR (optical character recognition) on the file, but whether it produces useful output depends on how bad the PDF file is to begin with. I'm guessing your PDF files are so poor that a standard OCR process can't convert it to text. This means that you have to convert it to text manually, by typing the text into a Word file.
Topic: Garbled text from PDF in Studio 2022
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: These look like OCR errors
[quote]toasty wrote:
Any way to fix this without converting to Word first? [/quote]
There is no way to fix this without converting to Word. In fact, converting to Word is what Trados does as well. Trados tries to perform OCR (optical character recognition) on the file, but whether it produces useful output depends on how bad the PDF file is to begin with. I'm guessing your PDF files are so poor that a standard OCR process can't convert it to text. This means that you have to convert it to text manually, by typing the text into a Word file.