What’s this course about?
Translators have to deal with various types of PDF files on a frequent basis. PDF files might be sent by an agency or end client for translation or the translators might want to use PDFs for alignment purposes, among others.
In this webinar, I will explain and demonstrate the various tools and workflows we use in-house to convert PDF files into Word files that are usable in translation tools. After registration, you will be sent a zip file with the various types of PDF files we will be discussing during this webinar (standard PDF, complex PDFs with multiple columns, images and tables, scanned PDFs, scanned distorted PDFs, Fax-PDFs etc.). For questions on the webinar, please contact siegfried.armbruster at gxp-language-services.com.
Date and time: December 12, 2012, 17h00 CET – Central European Time (see here to find out what time it is in your time zone)
Duration: 90 minutes with Q/A
Language: English
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About the presenter:
Siegfried Armbruster
After having worked in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Scotland as an MD, I turned fulltime freelance translator/interpreter 15 years ago. In 2009/2010, I got involved in implementing an ISO 9001, EN 15038 and ISO 13485 compliant QA/QM system for a US LSP. In 2011, I started my own agency, GxP Language Services, focused on Pharma/MedTech and Medical translations; the main focus is on providing quality translations to customers. To achieve this, a team based approach is employed, involving all parties (customers, translators, reviewers, in-country medical experts and in-house QA staff). As a translator and outsourcer I have been working with PDFs for years. Looking for workable solutions on how to handle these translator nightmares has resulted in a collection of tools and various workflows that I routinely apply to convert these files into usable Word files.
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Aside from the technical problems, which were never really resolved (listening to Siegfried breathing throughout the presentation was a constant distraction), I felt that the presentation was poorly organized. I had expected to see demonstrations of a number of different tools, but it mainly turned out to be the ABBYY software. Waiting for files to be converted (long files at that) is inappropriate in a presentation like this because it wastes valuable time. Hopefully the next presentation will be an improvement.
Agree with James 100%, and need to add that even when sometimes listening to some natural reactionary remarks could result entertaining for an audience, I believe that we heard Siegfried curse too often, considering the level of presentation this was supposed to be. Hope we can get a more varied set of tools next time. Hoping for an improvement as well.
Cheers!
Daphne