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Chapter 8: Using SYSTRAN MultiTranslate
Utility (SMTU)
SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) is supported by:
 SYSTRAN Professional Premium
The SYSTRAN MultiTranslate Utility (SMTU) lets you translate groups (or “batches”)
of documents at one time. The types of document you can add to batches are TXT,
RTF, DOC, HTML, XML, XHTML, PPT, XLS, PDF, and TMX-formatted files. SMTU
has a progress indicator that provides a visual indication of the translation and shows
the time required to perform each translation.
SMTU also lets you translate Web documents by specifying the Web page’s URL.
SMTU provides a “Web crawler” that lets you extract and translate the content of a
website.
For users who prefer command-line interfaces (CLIs), SMTU provides a CLI for
automating the translation process. To optimize translations, SMTU lets you specify
general and document-specific translation options. It also provides Terminology
Extraction and Not Found Word review aggregation capabilities for any user-defined
set of documents.
Understanding Batch Files
Batch files consist of files, Web pages, and folders that you want translated at the
same time. Batch files are useful for translating multiple files, Web pages, and folders
because you can translate all of these items simply by translating the batch file that
contains them, instead of translating them individually.
Batch files follow a “tree” hierarchy, much like Windows Explorer. The “root” (or
“parent”) directory is the batch file itself. The batch file contents are one level below
the root. If the batch file contains a folder, the contents of that folder are one level
below the batch file contents.
When you select Translation Options, User Dictionaries, Review, and Batch Entry
options for your translations, you can assign them at the batch level, folder level, or
individual file level.
• If you apply them to the batch file, the settings are inherited by all the items in
the batch file.
• If you apply them to a folder, the settings are inherited by all of the items (files
and subfolders) in the folder.
• You can click individual files in the batch file or in a folder and change the
settings for the selected files only.
Similarly, when Web pages are loaded into SMTU, you can set Batch Entry options to
have crawled pages inherit their settings from the root page.