What software do you use to look for terms in reference documents? Thread poster: Serena Marangoni
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I often receive projects with a lot of reference documents. I'm actually working on a project that has 10 previously translated documents (varying in lenght from 50 to 180 pages). What I've done in this project so far, is to open all the documents on acrobat (soure and target - 20 in total) and use advanced search to search in all documents at once when I want to see if a term has been used before.
Acrobat doesn't handle these many documents well... it often crashes.
I know I could... See more I often receive projects with a lot of reference documents. I'm actually working on a project that has 10 previously translated documents (varying in lenght from 50 to 180 pages). What I've done in this project so far, is to open all the documents on acrobat (soure and target - 20 in total) and use advanced search to search in all documents at once when I want to see if a term has been used before.
Acrobat doesn't handle these many documents well... it often crashes.
I know I could build an alignment for the previous translations but decided against that because of time constrains (and because I would actually only use it for terms, rather than as TM)
Does anybody know of a software that could be useful? ▲ Collapse
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Lars Jelking 
Israel
Local time: 22:24
English to Swedish
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| Search in Windows Explorer | Jan 9, 2019 |
Assuming the reference material is in an editable format, place them in a seperate folder and search for the term using Windows explorer.
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Rolf Keller
Germany
Local time: 21:24
English to German
| Index search is the key | Jan 10, 2019 |
Lars Jelking wrote:
Assuming the reference material is in an editable format, place them in a seperate folder and search for the term using Windows explorer.
An additional hint: In order to make this work you have to enable Windows' Indexing Service on that folder. Windows Explorer needs that service, otherwise the search is extremely slow.
BTW, Windows' Indexing Service can be used more comfortably than via Windoiws Explorer. Use the Omni-Lookup software and create a data source of type "Index". Just one click displays all hits in that folder plus - optionally - in many other sources (Web, TM's, Excel's, ...) simultaneously and side-by-side,
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John Fossey
Canada
Local time: 15:24
Member (2008)
French to English
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| Not really convenient | Jan 23, 2019 |
Lars Jelking wrote:
Assuming the reference material is in an editable format, place them in a seperate folder and search for the term using Windows explorer.
It's even easier from Acrobat Reader, using the advanced search, which looks for a word in all documents (and this is what I've been doing so far). I'd like to see if there's a software that does something more powerful than "find instances of this word", such as a software that does a "partial alignment" where I can roughly align pages rather than spend time aligning segments... or a software that allows me to quickly build a glossary of terms.
For example, in trados-alignment I can't see a find function, nor a way to build a glossary along with the translation memory. I'm looking for something that offers that.
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Michael Beijer
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:24
Member (2009)
Dutch to English
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| SynchroTerm (for extracting term pairs from TMXs) | Jan 23, 2019 |
Serena Marangoni wrote: Lars Jelking wrote:
Assuming the reference material is in an editable format, place them in a seperate folder and search for the term using Windows explorer. It's even easier from Acrobat Reader, using the advanced search, which looks for a word in all documents (and this is what I've been doing so far). I'd like to see if there's a software that does something more powerful than "find instances of this word", such as a software that does a "partial alignment" where I can roughly align pages rather than spend time aligning segments... or a software that allows me to quickly build a glossary of terms. For example, in trados-alignment I can't see a find function, nor a way to build a glossary along with the translation memory. I'm looking for something that offers that.
Try SynchroTerm, expensive but very good at extracting term pairs from TMXs:
https://terminotix.com/index.asp?content=item&item=7&lang=en
Michael
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Dan Lucas
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:24
Member (2014)
Japanese to English
| Agent Ransack | Jan 23, 2019 |
Serena Marangoni wrote:
Does anybody know of a software that could be useful?
Free and fast search in PDFs:
https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
(HT: Samuel)
Regards,
Dan
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I use and recommend FileSeek ( https://www.fileseek.ca/ ). Its free version is perfectly functional and allows to look up inside documents providing a preview.
Regards,
Jesús
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