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SDL Trados 2015: Source segments cannot be merged
Thread poster: Prasann Harankhedkar
Prasann Harankhedkar
Prasann Harankhedkar
India
Local time: 15:49
German to English
+ ...
Feb 2

Hello,

I am working on SDL Trados 2015 version. The major problem is with the merging of two segments even when they are from the same paragraph. Although the segments consist of a continuous line, it has been unnecessarily divided after the non-seperable prefix of German verb. I tried everything but the option to join/merge the divided segments found to be grayed out. I also checked with the source file(PDF) and found that there is no problem (i.e. the German sentence is not in dif... See more
Hello,

I am working on SDL Trados 2015 version. The major problem is with the merging of two segments even when they are from the same paragraph. Although the segments consist of a continuous line, it has been unnecessarily divided after the non-seperable prefix of German verb. I tried everything but the option to join/merge the divided segments found to be grayed out. I also checked with the source file(PDF) and found that there is no problem (i.e. the German sentence is not in different paragraphs).
Requesting the help from the experts.

Thanks

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Silke Walter
Silke Walter  Identity Verified
Germany
Local time: 12:19
Member (2014)
English to German
Project settings Feb 2

Hello Prasann,

Maybe the checkboxes in the project setting for merging are not activated (and also greyed out):


Merging



[Bearbeitet am 2024-02-02 14:07 GMT]
 
Stepan Konev
Stepan Konev  Identity Verified
Russian Federation
Local time: 13:19
English to Russian
Screenshot Feb 2

Can you please share a screenshot of the source fragment (PDF) and the matching segment in Trados editor with non-printable characters displayed?
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Can you please share a screenshot of the source fragment (PDF) and the matching segment in Trados editor with non-printable characters displayed?
You can use this site to create a link to your screenshot: https://imgbb.com/
You need to copy the 'BBCode full linked' link and paste it into your next comment.

*For NDA purposes, you can crop the screenshots to make only the problem area visible:


Most probably poor OCR practice is the culprit. If your source PDF file was converted into a docx file and not prepared before importing it into Trados, that may cause OCR-related issues.

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