In preparing a quote for a recent job possibility, I encountered a couple of useful programs:
The first comes by way of Jost Zetzsche's helpful newsletter, the Translator's Toolbox. Teleport Pro is a web spider that allows you to retrieve the entire contents of a given website. This makes it much easier to employ word-counting programs to create an accurate quote. I've only used it once, but it seems to do its job well. It's a shareware program that is free to try.
Once you've got the website downloaded, you can count words in HTML pretty easily with a program like Translator's Abacus. This one is free and seems to be pretty good at extracting text from the source code and only counting the words that matter. It creates a webpage showing the itemized results of your count on your hard drive, allowing you to count up an entire site with just a few clicks.
If anyone out there has other tried-and-tested methods for preparing quotes for website translations, I'd love to hear about them.
Posted by steve at July 28, 2004 11:29 AMI am using CatsCradle for website translations. Unfortunately, it has no automatic function to download the whole website. You have to have the files on your hard disc before you can work with CC.
Posted by: Sonja Tomaskovic at July 28, 2004 05:26 PMI use DéjàVu X to translate HTML documents. Once I have imported all the pages of a site into my DVX, I can easily do a full word count of all the pages in the project. The whole process takes less than a minute or so.
Posted by: Werner George Patels at July 29, 2004 11:11 PM