The working environment for most
professional translators is either a home office or the combination of the
home office with portable devices. It goes without saying that permanent
broadband Internet connection is a must.
As far as the technical requisites are
concerned, professional translators are expected to have fast, reliable
equipment (telefax machines, computers, notebooks) free from viruses and
malware and protected by effective firewall.
Software requisites in general are
understood to provide common platform for the exchange of source text for
the translation and include mostly
MS Office (MS Word, Excel, Power
Point) and PDF.
For Microsoft Office products it is
practical to choose Windows as the underlying operating system (OS).Your
best bet is to buy Windows in an OEM arrangement (with the purchase of PC,
notebook, hard disk, etc).
Adobe's
Acrobat Reader is a free software that allows to read PDF documents.
If you have to make
and edit PDF files on a regular basis, the best bet is to buy Acrobat 7.0 Standard or Acrobat 7.0 Professional
Features:
Assemble documents—create a single Adobe PDF file from multiple
sources—including Web pages and e-mail—to deliver one professional document
that anyone can open using free Adobe Reader 7.0 software.
Protect sensitive and confidential documents—control documents inside and
outside the firewall, online and offline. Easily create Adobe PDF
files—create PDF documents with one-button ease from Microsoft Word, Excel
and PowerPoint. Windows users can also convert to PDF from Access, Internet
Explorer, Outlook, and Publisher.
Enjoy improved performance—with improved performance you can quickly
convert, collect, and organize Adobe PDF documents. Create Adobe PDF
documents from Microsoft Outlook—Collect, convert, and organize Microsoft
Outlook e-mails into searchable Adobe PDF documents. Include attachments
links, and bookmarks sorted by sender, date, or subject.
However, if you do not
really need such a powerful and expensive software, you have other options
to use. The
otw software store offers various PDF conversion software as well as
some other software products for those interested in languages and
translation. One of those products is PDF2Word which has
a free trial version which is limited to 100 uses with each use up to a
maximum of 5 pages. To download PDF2Word trial version click
here
You can get the best results with PDF files
generated by software while scanned files need to be processed first by an
optical character recognition (OCR) software and then checked for errors.
Screen OCR
Expands the powers of your PC's built-in
copy command. Screen OCR can copy text from many locations that are
inaccessible to the Windows Clipboard, including dialogboxes and protected
Web pages. All settings are available via the system-tray icon, which lets
you select a color for highlighted text and choose how you want the
text-selection tool to behave. For example, you can make it act just like
the function built into Windows, or you can have it copy items in a
rectangular box. Additionally, Screen OCR can copy graphics or certain areas
of your screen and display statistics, such as word count and font style
once you've highlighted text.
Screen OCR recognizes any text visible in any place of the
screen. All you have to do is to choose the proper selection mode, select
the data, and copy it to the Clipboard. People who work with data that
cannot be saved or printed will like the program. Screen OCR saves
everything you can see on the screen and does it with astonishing accuracy,
whether it's an image, scanned text, PDF, or HTML. Web designers, analysts,
or interpreters also can use it. You can use Screen OCR in any way you are
most comfortable with. It can be window selection, scrolling capture, simple
cursor capture, or rectangular selection. It recognizes Internet Explorer
windows, PDFs, pictures--anything you can read with your eyes. Screen OCR
saves everything that you can see on the screen - and does it with
astonishing accuracy. Whether it will be image, scanned text, PDF or HTML -
Screen OCR will recognize and save the letters. It
can be used by web-designers, analysts or interpreters also.
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