Tb-Scout v3.0 User Guide

🌎 The indispensable language tool for Translators and Interpreters ✓

The daily currency of Translators and Interpreters is WORDS and their most valuable assets to perform successfully in their day-to-day operations come in the form of curated Termbases (terminology databases) and Translation Memories, where words are stored in a systematic way as terms, phrases, sentences, idioms, acronyms and even entire paragraphs (called "Translation Units").

— Not to mention also the availability of AUDIO and VIDEO items, plus the visualization of IMAGES (diagrams, illustrations, blueprints, etc.) at your fingertips, thanks to the versatility of MultiTerm™ + Tb-Scout v3.3 —

For Interpreters, Tb-Scout v3.3 could be of great help when preparing AND keeping their own bilingual or multilingual glossaries of relevant terminology and specific expressions and concepts from conferences and/or events.  It is nothing less than a curated linguistic arsenal derived from documents and/or information snippets like 
° program or agenda ° background papers ° white papers ° texts of speeches ° PowerPoint presentations 
° summaries or minutes ° speaker's bios ° diagrams ° charts ° video clips ° audio snippets with pronunciation, etc. 

The sheer amount of terms and subjects could be at times overwhelming. Not anymore.

Get ALL of your relevant data and/or information (including multimedia)
in ONE single place, using only ONE application

If you have a fast, responsive, and practical tool that will help you to prepare for interpretation sessions (simultaneous or consecutive), that would be extremely helpful to be at top performance — even if you are an experienced interpreter, nothing beats being prepared with the right resources.

With Tb-Scout v3.3 you can, in general:

• Search and find Translation Memories by translation units (TUs) and translation segments and to export single translation units or entire Translation Memories in a practical and fast fashion
• Search and find Terms in a Termbase by Date (created or modified), Export to Excel, to TMX, etc.
• Search, preview,  inventory and extract multimedia items found in a Termbase
• Open websites and files, when you have saved as text in a Descriptive Field the corresponding URLs and Windows full file paths (both local and UNC) 

What it is

• First of all, Tb-Scout v3.3 is an honest application — It will deliver and when not possible, it will tell you so
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a search engine to explore, extract and export data from (SDL/RWS) MultiTerm Termbases (terminology databases) and from (Trados Studio™) Translation Memories
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a data extraction tool in plain text, meaning ready to use with no extra conversions
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a read-only tool, meaning all of your Termbases and/or Translation Memories will not be modified or altered
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a self-contained tool, meaning no extra programs need to be installed (except for either a full version or a run-time version of Microsoft Access that should be already available)
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a tool with a small footprint of less than 13 MB for the entire application
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is a database tool with a user-friendly interface that processes and stores temporary data internally within the same tool for processing and for export
• Last but not least, Tb-Scout v3.3 is a stand-alone application, but it is not portable — this means that once you install it, you cannot copy it into another folder or computer because it will not work.

Please note: Some functionality is not available for encrypted and read-only Termbases.

What it is not

• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a Translation Memory management system, but rather a companion tool and quick explorer tool.
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a terminology management system, but rather a companion tool for such a system
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a substitute for (SDL) MultiTerm Desktop, but rather a complementary tool to quickly search, locate, and extract information
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a tool to add, edit or remove terms from a Termbase
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a tool that will modify or change a Termbase or a Translation Memory since all its transactions are read-only
• Tb-Scout v3.3 is not a tool that will communicate with a server or will share your personal data

* Conversion of TMs to the TMX format is only available in version 3.3

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