Hello everyone, I open this discussion in order to ask sdl for the comamds in trados studio to split and merge segments. they go out shadowed and take a lot of time so. they are saying from a lot of time ago also that they are going to make them function, but they do not do.
from here I encourage everyone to ask them to put them in functioning to be able to translate pdfs and word that are ocr from images.
Without any other particular,
Thanks and Regards from Jesus.
Hello Jesus Duran
When you have documents from an OCR source, there will be many hard returns in the text where there should just be a line break.
Studio does provide the functionality of merging across paragraphs, but it is time-consuming and somewhat error-prone to do so extensively:
But I think it is better to clean up the translation source so you can work properly.
If you don't want to do this manually (or as a first step) you might want to run a regex replace over your text. (I assume that you have a plain text file if you did an OCR.) A hard line break (or paragraph break, technically a carriage return followed by a line feed on Windows systems) that comes immediately after a lower case character is hardly ever "natural". So if you replace [a-z]\r\n with a space, you will remove a lot of those troublesome OCR artefacts from your translation source. This can of course be fine-tuned to reflect the source language and your particular situation. On the whole, however, there is no garbage-in, roses-out method.
Here's what I mean:
Pre-cleanup
Post-cleanup
Hope it helps.
Daniel
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