Overview
Bilingual Searcher is a freeware application that allows you to search and replace across multiple bilingual documents. Supported file formats include standard xliff files (*.xlf/*.xliff), sdlxliff (Trados Studio xliff), mxliff (MemSource xliff), ttx (Trados TagDocument), and tmx (translation memory exchange format). Search results can be exported to other formats (currently only Excel 2007/2010 format available).Release notes
- Version 2.2.0.0 released with the following improvements (January 27, 2015):
- Support of standard xliff files (*.xlf/*.xliff)
- Added the functionality of grouping files and performing search and replace on the selected groups of files.
- Added a command line argument to perform simple search. - Version 2.0.1.0 released with the following improvements (August 21, 2014):
- Bug fix: Comments could not be extracted from sdlxliff files generated by Trados Studio 2011. - Version 2.0.0.0 released with the following improvements (August 17, 2014):
- Search performance and memory usage performance improved
- Add from Folder button has been added to Add Files window. This button allows you to add all supported bilingual files under a specified directory, including those under its child directories.
- Automatic focus on search results
- Expand/collapse the search settings panel (F12)
- Search in tags check box has been added. Using this function, you can search for text in placeholders in segments. - Version 1.2.2.0 released with the following improvements (March 22, 2014):
- Find All button is now set to default so that find operation can be executed simply by hitting Enter.
- Replace allowed check box has been added to Add Files window. Select this check box when you want to protect files from unintended replacement. - Version 1.2.0.0 released with the following improvements (March 17, 2014):
- Export function added
- Search performance greatly improved
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I would be grateful if you would leave a comment about:
- what you think about the application
- feature requests
- bug reports
Main features
- Search and replacement across bilingual files
- Replacement on the translation units selected in the search results view
- Search options such as regular expressions and search in tags
- Replacement options such as upper-to-lower conversion
- Filtering out search results based on file names, text entries, and segment statuses
- Exporting search results to other formats (currently only Excel 2007/2010 xlsx)
Sending search text as a command line argument
Just append search text to the executable file path as shown below:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Capybara Translation\Bilingual Searcher\BilingualSearcherApp.exe" "search text"
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your efforts, this application works great. But I badly need a batch replace option. I mean a possibility to replace words and expression according to the list, not one by one, as now. For example, eat=essen, drink=trinken, etc. I translate legal texts and there are a lot of cliches, Now, I have to replace them manually, one by one. It would be very helpful to automate the process :)
So, I would add the files to this application, perform batch replace, then open them in Studio and translate.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteDo you consider developing a standalone QA tool? Studio's built-in QA Verifier is not good. There are some apps like Xbench, Verifika etc. But I think you can develop another alternative.