Forum: MemoQ support
Topic: What is the best way to translate a PDF document?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: No need to choose one or the other
[quote]Hamish Young wrote:
A good OCR tool is more useful than a CAT tool for PDF files. [/quote]
I think I understand your sentiment, but they are not mutually exclusive.
If I use FineReader to perform OCR on a document, that doesn't mean that I cannot or should not use a CAT tool on the resulting (typically Word) file. They are equally useful.
Sometimes I cannot obtain a readable document for my CAT tool without OCR, but by the same token I wouldn't attempt a document of any size without my CAT tool even if a readable version of the source file were available.
Regards,
Dan
Topic: What is the best way to translate a PDF document?
Poster: Dan Lucas
Post title: No need to choose one or the other
[quote]Hamish Young wrote:
A good OCR tool is more useful than a CAT tool for PDF files. [/quote]
I think I understand your sentiment, but they are not mutually exclusive.
If I use FineReader to perform OCR on a document, that doesn't mean that I cannot or should not use a CAT tool on the resulting (typically Word) file. They are equally useful.
Sometimes I cannot obtain a readable document for my CAT tool without OCR, but by the same token I wouldn't attempt a document of any size without my CAT tool even if a readable version of the source file were available.
Regards,
Dan