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Thread poster: Pilar Dueñas
Pilar Dueñas
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Costa Rica
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Jun 8, 2021

Hello all,
I've just started a subtitle QA project and the work involves checking newly-created SDH captions of old films. The OTT platform provides the original scripts, usually in PDF form, and these have to be typed out and segmented into subtitles.
To optimise the workflow, it would be very useful to be able to open the PDF, transcribe one page, then jump to the next page of the PDF with a keyboard hotkey, transcribe it, and so on, without having to switch between the PDF and the... See more
Hello all,
I've just started a subtitle QA project and the work involves checking newly-created SDH captions of old films. The OTT platform provides the original scripts, usually in PDF form, and these have to be typed out and segmented into subtitles.
To optimise the workflow, it would be very useful to be able to open the PDF, transcribe one page, then jump to the next page of the PDF with a keyboard hotkey, transcribe it, and so on, without having to switch between the PDF and the text document.
So I wanted to know how do you usually transcribe PDFs and whether there is an online app similar to video transcription apps. ▲ Collapse
 
Victoria Britten
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France
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Online solutions Jun 9, 2021

Forgive me if I have misunderstood your situation, but you can convert a PDF into a modifiable Word document online for free (here is one good tool: https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online/pdf-to-word.html); you could then do the segmenting in that Word document.

Jorge Payan
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Pilar Dueñas
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Costa Rica
Local time: 07:45
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Great app! Jun 9, 2021

Thank you, Victoria. I've uploaded a script and the transcription is actually fairly accurate considering that some scripts are from the '30s and '40s.
It's not only about segmenting, there is a lot of non-dialogue information that needs to be deleted, but this is very useful. Thank you!

[Edited at 2021-06-09 20:24 GMT]
 


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