Rosetta online translation software: word count - Help! Thread poster: Mara Campbell
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Mara Campbell
Argentina
Local time: 02:31
Spanish to English
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Hi! Any users of Rosetta, the online CAT tool, around?
A client wants me to give them an estimate for a translation and the source text is in Rosetta "format" (probably not the appropriate term), meaning it's on a website. I can't seem to be able to download the text in order to produce a word count, and there are like 55 pages of term lists, so I can't copy-paste everything on to a Word document.
Anybody out there knows a way to "grab" the text and/or estimate the amou... See more Hi! Any users of Rosetta, the online CAT tool, around?
A client wants me to give them an estimate for a translation and the source text is in Rosetta "format" (probably not the appropriate term), meaning it's on a website. I can't seem to be able to download the text in order to produce a word count, and there are like 55 pages of term lists, so I can't copy-paste everything on to a Word document.
Anybody out there knows a way to "grab" the text and/or estimate the amount of words to be translated?
Thanks for your help and have a great 2010!
Mara ▲ Collapse
| | | | | Did you try download software? | Jan 4, 2010 |
Did you try download software like Teleport Pro or Website ripper copier?
| | | | Mara Campbell
Argentina
Local time: 02:31
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Arabic Translation Team wrote:
Did you try download software like Teleport Pro or Website ripper copier?
I don't know them, but I'll definitely take a good look at them! Thanks for the idea.
Best,
Mara
| | | | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 07:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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Mara Campbell wrote:
Any users of Rosetta, the online CAT tool, around?
Do you mean Launchpad Rosetta?
A client wants me to give them an estimate for a translation and the source text is in Rosetta "format" (probably not the appropriate term), meaning it's on a website.
If it is Launchpad, then the source format is Gettext PO. You need to log in to Rosetta and "request" the files. The web site will then e-mail the files to you, after a short delay, if I remember correctly. It can be confusing and it is possible to download a branch instead of the whole tree by mistake, so it may be better to ask the client to send you the files, zipped.
Typically, there will not be a single PO file but several (even hundreds) and these files can potentially be in subdirectories. You would have to deliver the translation in the same format -- in separate files and in their separate subdirectories.
Virtaal can be used to translate PO files, if the files are in UTF-8N. Other CAT tools can also handle PO files. You can convert between UTF-8Y and UTF-8N using Okapi Rainbow. Virtaal can open only one file at a time, and doesn't have a built-in file explorer, so if you want to do a word count, you can use pocount from the Translate Toolkit (again, UTF-8N is required). After you've done all the translations, run pocount again to see if you have missed any files.
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal/index
http://okapi.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/translate/files/Translate%20Toolkit/
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/toolkit/pocount
Samuel
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