We are trying to find a tool that would help us localize images. We support 16 languages in our product documentation, and we use a lot of images from our product, but finding a tool and a good process to localize images isn't easy, and for now we have kept most of our images in English only.
SnagIt does indeed offer a Translation feature. If you save your image as a .snag image with movable text labels, you can export that image and labels are exported in an .xlf format for translators to localize. https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000750692-Translate-Text
But one difficulty we have is in pre-processing the image. You have to visually locate the strings in the static image; manually select those strings and delete them; paint bucket in the background; then manually re-type the strings as separate text labels with the the same font that they had. Once all that's done, you can finally click Translate to export the strings. A faster approach would be helpful.
Today I stumbled across Smart Move https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-smart-move.html. I was hoping I could use it for localizing images and easier pre-processing of image files for localization. It doesn't quite work with text as advertised even after playing with the slider. (In my experience Smart Move either converts too much text--all the letters in a word as separate draggable text labels--or it can't quite find the text). Smart Move is useful for what it does, but it isn't really suited for localization prepping of an image.
But it seems like it's close to what I need. I wonder how hard it would be for development to create a similar option to recognize and convert text into sensible phrases for localization purposes.
Another related request would be to allow some way to batch export prepared images for localization. Then once localized, batch import the localized .xlf files and create the localized images in one pass.
SnagIt does indeed offer a Translation feature. If you save your image as a .snag image with movable text labels, you can export that image and labels are exported in an .xlf format for translators to localize. https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000750692-Translate-Text
But one difficulty we have is in pre-processing the image. You have to visually locate the strings in the static image; manually select those strings and delete them; paint bucket in the background; then manually re-type the strings as separate text labels with the the same font that they had. Once all that's done, you can finally click Translate to export the strings. A faster approach would be helpful.
Today I stumbled across Smart Move https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-snagit-smart-move.html. I was hoping I could use it for localizing images and easier pre-processing of image files for localization. It doesn't quite work with text as advertised even after playing with the slider. (In my experience Smart Move either converts too much text--all the letters in a word as separate draggable text labels--or it can't quite find the text). Smart Move is useful for what it does, but it isn't really suited for localization prepping of an image.
But it seems like it's close to what I need. I wonder how hard it would be for development to create a similar option to recognize and convert text into sensible phrases for localization purposes.
Another related request would be to allow some way to batch export prepared images for localization. Then once localized, batch import the localized .xlf files and create the localized images in one pass.
Posted 2 months ago
j.neil, Employee
