Compare PDF softwares Thread poster: Lais Lewicki
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Hi! I often get asked to translate updated versions of contracts and agreements, so I need a good tool to compare PDFs without needing to convert them to word files first. I know that Workshare Compare does that beautifully, but it does not count how many new words there are in the document. Does anyone know a PDF comparison tool that does so? Counting the new words in a document faster would help me give my clients an accurate quotation on the... See more Hi! I often get asked to translate updated versions of contracts and agreements, so I need a good tool to compare PDFs without needing to convert them to word files first. I know that Workshare Compare does that beautifully, but it does not count how many new words there are in the document. Does anyone know a PDF comparison tool that does so? Counting the new words in a document faster would help me give my clients an accurate quotation on the work. As I would only have to translate those words. Thanks in advance! Lais ▲ Collapse | | | Andriy Yasharov Ukraine Local time: 07:16 Member (2008) English to Russian + ... ABBYY Comparator | Jul 13, 2018 |
Hi, I have not tried ABBYY Comparator yet but they say: "Fast, accurate and automatic, Comparator identifies and alerts you to any relevant changes in text — even if comparing two versions of the same document across different file formats". You can check it out at www.abbyy.com/en-us/comparator | | | VIP9N Local time: 08:16 Russian to English + ... Workshare Compare first, and then delete irrelevant | Jul 16, 2018 |
Lais Lewicki wrote: ... I know that Workshare Compare does that beautifully, but it does not count how many new words there are in the document... Lais Hi Lais, I use Workshare Compare for these purposes. And compare what it can compare, not only pdfs. When the comparison is completed, I simply save it as a Word-file. Then I open it in Word, go to Find & Replace and start deleting "unnecessary" fonts, i.e. black (unchanged text), red (deleted text) and green (relocated text, RGB 0, 192, 0). I choose the required font colour and replace it with nothing. As a result, I have pages of dark blue colour text (a new or added text), which I then count and tell the client an approximate number of text to translate. This method is rather accurate, but not over-precise. For example, Word does not delete black footnotes, but usually the number of their characters either too insignificant, or you can remove them manually. This is how I do it. Good luck. | | | Lais Lewicki Brazil Local time: 02:16 English to Portuguese TOPIC STARTER Thanks for the tip | Jul 18, 2018 |
Andriy Yasharov wrote: Hi, I have not tried ABBYY Comparator yet but they say: "Fast, accurate and automatic, Comparator identifies and alerts you to any relevant changes in text — even if comparing two versions of the same document across different file formats". You can check it out at www.abbyy.com/en-us/comparator Thanks for the tip! I will try Abbyy's software! | |
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Lais Lewicki Brazil Local time: 02:16 English to Portuguese TOPIC STARTER
VIP9N wrote: Lais Lewicki wrote: ... I know that Workshare Compare does that beautifully, but it does not count how many new words there are in the document... Lais Hi Lais, I use Workshare Compare for these purposes. And compare what it can compare, not only pdfs. When the comparison is completed, I simply save it as a Word-file. Then I open it in Word, go to Find & Replace and start deleting "unnecessary" fonts, i.e. black (unchanged text), red (deleted text) and green (relocated text, RGB 0, 192, 0). I choose the required font colour and replace it with nothing. As a result, I have pages of dark blue colour text (a new or added text), which I then count and tell the client an approximate number of text to translate. This method is rather accurate, but not over-precise. For example, Word does not delete black footnotes, but usually the number of their characters either too insignificant, or you can remove them manually. This is how I do it. Good luck. Thanks! I will try your method, unless there's another software that does this in the market, this seems like the quickest and easiest way! | | | Lais Lewicki Brazil Local time: 02:16 English to Portuguese TOPIC STARTER Abbyy Comparator not available in my region | Jul 18, 2018 |
Andriy Yasharov wrote: Hi, I have not tried ABBYY Comparator yet but they say: "Fast, accurate and automatic, Comparator identifies and alerts you to any relevant changes in text — even if comparing two versions of the same document across different file formats". You can check it out at www.abbyy.com/en-us/comparator So, Abbyy Comparator is not available in my region (Brazil). Thanks for the tip anyway! | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Compare PDF softwares CafeTran Espresso | You've never met a CAT tool this clever!
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