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Thread poster: Shawn Champion
Shawn Champion
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Sweden
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Feb 25, 2011

Hi,

I have: XP, Trados Studio, Office 2003, Office 2007

Is there a way to get separate word counts for each language in the file? If so, I suspect it would have to rely on some sort of "auto detect language" and it would thus be less than 100% accurate. I just can't find a way to do this besides manually copying out all of the text of 1 language, etc.

Thanks!
 
neilmac
neilmac
Spain
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Spanish to English
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Don't charge per word Feb 25, 2011

I find that PPT and some other programs can be problematic in terms of word content, as often there may be text boxes that for some reason are not detected, as well as other issues. I therefore have a real-time hourly rate which I apply for non-Word formats like PPT, Excel, Pagemaker, Dreamweaver... etc.
 
Viachaslau
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Sweden
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English to Russian
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, Feb 26, 2011

neilmac wrote:

I find that PPT and some other programs can be problematic in terms of word content, as often there may be text boxes that for some reason are not detected, as well as other issues. I therefore have a real-time hourly rate which I apply for non-Word formats like PPT, Excel, Pagemaker, Dreamweaver... etc.


As long as there is no text embedded in a graphic object the number of words in a ppt file can be seen in file's properies - right click/ properties/ information.

I don't think. however, that there is an easy and accurate way of counting words of different languages in the same file.

But is this really needed. I know that translators working in multiple language pairs charge different rates for different languages. How many cents the differents can be? max 2?
 
Tony M
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Possible explanation Feb 26, 2011

Viachaslau wrote:

But is this really needed. I know that translators working in multiple language pairs charge different rates for different languages. How many cents the differents can be? max 2?



I imagine Yankee Swede may well be facing the same problem as I often do, i.e. being required to translate a PPT that is already partly in EN, and the client only wishing to pay for those parts I've actually had to translate.

So it's not probably a question of the small difference between the rates for 2 different langages, so much as the whole charging basis for the project.

Just an idea: if the languages of each segment were correctly set from the outset, would it be possible to extract the text to Word (using Werecat, for example), and then simply delete one or other of the languages using search-&-replace on the 'language' attribute?

Although a little convoluted, this would certainly involve less operations than doing it wholly manually — but does depend, of course, on the language attributes having been set correctly in the first place!

Good luck!

[Edited at 2011-02-26 17:11 GMT]
 
Shawn Champion
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Thanks! Feb 26, 2011

@ Tony M - exactly. Sorry if my original post was less than crystal. The file was about 30% English and 70% Swedish. I was only to be paid for the translations to English. It wasn't a huuuuuuuge file, so the PM and I did manual word counts that were almost exactly the same. Thanks for the Werecat tip!

I ran everything through Trados before accepting the job and it was flawless. I just forgot about the wordcount part (facepalm)
 


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