Translating PDF files

Using the built-in PDF viewer

Click here to read more about using CafeTran's built-in PDF viewer.

There are at least three different ways to translate PDF documents using CafeTran:

  1. With CafeTran's Clipboard Workflow, your output will be a Microsoft Word document
  2. With a PDF conversion program like ABBYY FineReader for Mac or Windows or SolidPDF for Mac or Windows, your output will be a Microsoft Word document
  3. With Inceni's Infix Pro, your output will be a PDF document

Creating XML files with Infix Pro

You can use Infix Pro (Mac, Windows) to export the text content of any PDF document to an XML file that you can translate with CafeTran. Afterwards you import the translated XML file in Infix and save the translated PDF document.

Workflow

  • Open the Arano.PDF in Infix:
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Note that the Mac version isn't a native OS X application (it is a Crossover app), so the look and feel is a little different.

  • Choose Document > Translate > Export XML to export the text from the Arano.PDF in Infix's XML format.
  • In the CAT Export dialogue box make sure that the Simple XML radio button is selected:
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  • Now save the Arano.PDF:
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  • In CafeTran create a new project for the file type XML:
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  • To check the result of the workflow, you can create a pseudo translation:
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  • Export the CafeTran project.
  • In Infix choose Document > Translate > Import XML to import the text from the XML file in the Arano.PDF:
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  • Check the translated PDF document:
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Here is the Arano.PDF used in this article and here is the pseudo-translated PDF that was created with this workflow.

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