What software do you use to look for terms in reference documents?
Thread poster: Serena Marangoni
Serena Marangoni
Serena Marangoni  Identity Verified
Italy
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Jan 9, 2019

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
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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 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?
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Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
HoudahSpot Jan 9, 2019

If you're on a Mac, you can use HoudahSpot: https://www.proz.com/forum/apple_mac_operating_systems/328319-using_houdahspot_to_search_parallel_pdf_files.html

 
Lars Jelking
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Israel
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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.

Jorge Payan
 
Rolf Keller
Rolf Keller
Germany
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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,


 
John Fossey
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French to English
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Copernic Jan 10, 2019

It's been a long time now, but I used to use Copernic. I think they have a free version. http://www.copernic.com/

 
Serena Marangoni
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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.


 
Stephanie Busch
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Germany
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English to German
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LiveDocs (MemoQ feature) Jan 23, 2019

I find LiveDocs very convenient, as it allows me to search corpora/documents directly from within MemoQ.

https://help.memoq.com/8-5/en/Things/things-livedocs.html

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Unfortunately Trados Studio doesn't seem to offer any comparable feature as yet.


 
Michael Beijer
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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


 
Dan Lucas
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United Kingdom
Local time: 09:48
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


 
Jesús Calzado
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FileSeek Jan 23, 2019

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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