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What is the biggest size of Word file that Cafetran can handle?
Thread poster: Tom in London
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:36
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Aug 30, 2021

A client has sent me a Word file containing 38,000 words + various formatting quirks.

I have successfully loaded it into Cafetran, but it slows CT to a crawl.

This is what I'm seeing now (and everything has frozen):

Screen Shot

What is the best way to speed things up?



[Edited at 2021-08-30 16:02 GMT]
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Split it up Aug 30, 2021

Tom in London wrote:

What is the best way to speed things up?


Split the document in portions. Translate these. Import your translation to a memory. Create a new project for the whole document and link the memory from the portions. Choose Translate > Insert all exact matches.
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:36
Member (2008)
Italian to English
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OK but Aug 30, 2021

German Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:

Tom in London wrote:

What is the best way to speed things up?


Split the document in portions. Translate these. Import your translation to a memory. Create a new project for the whole document and link the memory from the portions. Choose Translate > Insert all exact matches.


Yes-I was thinking I might have to do that. However I have now managed to clean up the Word file (which was from a converted PDF) and CafeTran seems a lot happier with it.

Hans Lenting
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Ms Word OCR Aug 31, 2021

Tom in London wrote:

However I have now managed to clean up the Word file (which was from a converted PDF) and CafeTran seems a lot happier with it.


If you have a lot of tags in your document, you can use a special filter: Ms Word OCR.

Screenshot 2021-08-31 at 09.19.37
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:36
Member (2008)
Italian to English
TOPIC STARTER
Thanks Aug 31, 2021

German Dutch Engineering Translation wrote:

Tom in London wrote:

However I have now managed to clean up the Word file (which was from a converted PDF) and CafeTran seems a lot happier with it.


If you have a lot of tags in your document, you can use a special filter: Ms Word OCR.

Screenshot 2021-08-31 at 09.19.37


Thanks - in fact the problem was the poor-quality Word file, which generated an enormous number of segments and tags. So I OCRed the PDF again, and have now obtained a much better source document on which to work. Problem solved!
 


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