How to translate a PDF file

so pdf files are actually extremely useful because uh you know they can be displayed uh identically across all the platforms so no matter what version of windows or mac os or linux or android you use pdf files will be displayed always the same and this is a huge advantage and also one of their advantages is that they cannot be edited so you can just send for instance your invoice in a pdf format to your customer and you can be sure that they cannot change it or manipulate it in any way but unfortunately if you actually try to translate a pdf file this becomes a disadvantage because you cannot directly edit such a file so it's actually quite laborious to work with it so if you want to translate a pdf file then of course you could take this very naive approach like putting your pdf to the left side of your screen and then opening a microsoft word file but you know then you would have to you would have to copy for instance all images manually so you would have to copy it like this for instance you copied from this pdf file uh into into microsoft word and then you would just start translating something writing and uh you know as you can imagine this is really laborious and it will take you lots of time and you will just end up working for for a minimum wage if you recalculate the time you spend on translation uh pair your rate per word then you know you won't make that much money per hour so um there actually must be some way how to do it a little bit more effectively how to optimize this whole process and uh sure enough there is so what you have to do before you start translating a pdf file you actually need to convert such pdf file to some editable format it will mostly be something like microsoft word but you can also convert it to rtf or to some other appropriate format but uh in this case we will be working with the ms microsoft office of word format so what you can actually do is uh to go to this website webpage i have discovered for you and this web page is actually called pdf to doc and what this web page does is that it actually converts pdf files to doc files so doc files doc files they are microsoft word document files so it actually it's very easy you just go to this webpage and then you just drag and drop your pdf document which i have prepared right here so you can just drag and drop it onto this web page and you know it will just take a couple of seconds and then it will actually convert it and as you can see as soon as it's converted you can actually click this download button and it will download the converted pdf file and this pdf file will be converted to microsoft word so as you can see it's been nicely downloaded here so we can view it in the folder and then we can drag and drop drag and drop it into our actual folder where we would like to work with it so we can drag and drop it here and as you can see it's been nicely copied into our folder so what you can do now now you can upload such a microsoft word file into a so-called cad tool cad tool is a special piece of software so cad stands for computer aided translation and it's a special software and it's really key in this process with this cad tool you can actually save lots of work and lots of time so if you don't know what a cat tool is then please watch and read my other articles on cat tools to get some more information about this but as i have said it's really key so you need to use a cat tool for this so in this case i'm using this very old sdl charger studio which is a classic cad tool i have actually already prepared a project so i can just only drag and drop my file into it so i will just open it and i will now just drag and drop my file into it and as you can see it will add the file nicely into my tradus studio it's been added now and i can now prepare it for translation by clicking the right button and then selecting prepare and i can just click directly finish and it will just take a couple of seconds and it will prepare the project yeah okay so it's been prepared and now the process is really easy just switch it to your target language which is check in this case and you just double click your file and as you can see it will nicely open in this sdl charger studio and as you can see has been nicely converted it's fully editable and you can start translating i'll just translate a bit i will use the machine translation feature and i will use my own software which is called bohemicus so i will use the machine translation feature for this bohemikus will be running in the background so i can start maybe from here and i can just press ctrl plus space to machine translate each segment and as you can see i'm just very quickly translating everything yeah of course this would need to be a little bit formatted for the final for the final form but it's getting pretty pretty quickly if you speak any check you can see that it's not perfect it will be to to be it would need to be edited but i am just doing it quickly to show you how you can actually do it and how you can export it to the final format to the final microsoft word i would like to show you the results so let's do a couple of segments more right so i think this is just enough so i have translated a fair portion of this document so let's i can i can now close this file and i can actually export it finalize it to its final form to its final format to see you to show you what it actually looks like when it's finished so i can just click finalize and as you can see it's been completed so okay i can now show you the final file and as you can see here we have the final file it's been nicely convert converted and as you can see our translated portion of text is uh right here so this portion of text is in check you can see it's right here i could translate the whole document into check and as you can see it will nicely keep the formatting it will keep all the images just the text will be in a different language it will be in the in the target language of your choice so this is basically how you translate a pdf documents so to sum it up you need to take your pdf file you need to upload it to a pdf to word converter which we have like here like here this is the pdf to doc so it's https double dot slash pdf2dog.com it's right here you go to this website you upload your document it will be converted for you and you download it you upload it to your cat tool it can be for instance sdl shadows it can be memo queue or it can be some other cad tools such as wordfast you translate it you export it or finalize it into your final microsoft word format and here you go you have translated your very first pdf pdf document

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Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Mon May 17 2021