Fine Reader and Wordfast Initiator des Themas: teddd76
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teddd76
Local time: 04:33
Englisch > Französisch
Hi,
I just bought Fine Reader 9. I used it this morning to convert a PDF file to Word. The conversion went OK and I could translate the document with Wordfast. However, when I tried to clean it I got the following message: “Failure segmented document, analysis was dropped”. I suspect it’s got to do with the fact the document was originally a PDF file. Do you have any idea what happened and how I could avoid this in the future? Thanks in advance for your help!
| | | | | only manual work is of value | Nov 17, 2008 |
Never let FR do anything in Automatic mode!
Segment pages yourself. Only this way you will be sure the formatting is OK. After you recognise the text, check and adjust formatting in Word (don't forget to switch on "show unprintable characters" to see the formatting markers).
Only then start translating. It is better to spend one hour preparing the document, then not to know what to do at the end.
FR is good at recognising, but PDF is not a usual text format... See more Never let FR do anything in Automatic mode!
Segment pages yourself. Only this way you will be sure the formatting is OK. After you recognise the text, check and adjust formatting in Word (don't forget to switch on "show unprintable characters" to see the formatting markers).
Only then start translating. It is better to spend one hour preparing the document, then not to know what to do at the end.
FR is good at recognising, but PDF is not a usual text format and the program does not process it as a scanned page. It tries to extract the text by copying-pasting where possible. (It is proved by the error, when you try to recognise a file with content extraction protection on. If it were not using copy-paste method, but just printing to bit map and recognise, it would not produce error messages.)
Any automation still requires good manual input. ▲ Collapse
| | | | teddd76
Local time: 04:33
Englisch > Französisch
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Thank you Sergei!
Just another (dumb) question: how do I segment pages myself? I've just bought FR and the only mode I know is "automatic conversion"!
| | | | Claire Cox
Vereinigtes Königreich
Local time: 03:33
Französisch > Englisch
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| Have you added Fine Reader to your Word add-ins? | Nov 17, 2008 |
Just a thought; I know that if you allow Abbyy to be installed as part of the Word set-up (which is the default option when you set it up, unless you do a custom install), it can mess up the settings for Wordfast big time! If Fine reader is shown as an add-in under Tempates and Add-ins, uninstall it and reinstall without letting it be part of Word's set-up and you should avoid conflicting with the Wordfast template. Apologies if you've already done this, but it just struck me as something worth ... See more Just a thought; I know that if you allow Abbyy to be installed as part of the Word set-up (which is the default option when you set it up, unless you do a custom install), it can mess up the settings for Wordfast big time! If Fine reader is shown as an add-in under Tempates and Add-ins, uninstall it and reinstall without letting it be part of Word's set-up and you should avoid conflicting with the Wordfast template. Apologies if you've already done this, but it just struck me as something worth checking.
Best of luck!
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teddd76
Local time: 04:33
Englisch > Französisch
THEMENSTARTER
Ok I'll do that! Thanks for your help Claire and Sergei!
| | | | | there are tools | Nov 18, 2008 |
how do I segment pages myself?
There are many toolbars. Use Image Toolbar to set the rectangular fields for OCR. You can modify the shape of the field, add/cut space. Assign whether it is a text or an image or a table. The behaviour will be different.
Play with the tools. Customize them. There are much more buttons than on the default toolbar.
| | | | | segmenting and segmenting | Nov 18, 2008 |
teddd76 wrote:
However, when I tried to clean it I got the following message: “Failure segmented document, analysis was dropped”. I suspect it’s got to do with the fact the document was originally a PDF file.
The "segmentation" referred to in the WF's message is the WF's segmentation and not segmentation you apply in the FR for text recognition/conversion. These two have nothing in common. The FR's segmentation determines how various pieces of the text are arranged in respect to each other and thus may affect the document's formatting, but it should not leave any traces in the converted document that might interfere with WF's segmentation.
On the other hand, the conversion from PDF does leave traces in the resulting document (regardless of the segmenation), and these are known to cause trouble when the document is opened in TagEditor. I've never had any problems with such documents in WF, though. Also, if the conversion were the cause, I would expect the WF segmentation problems to occur when you are translating. But if you'd completed the document successfully, and then WF could not clean it -- probably that means that the segmentation got messed up in the process of the translation? Did you check it? What Claire said makes sense, too.
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