SDL Batch Anonymizer

SDL Batch Anonymizer (requires SDL Trados Studio 2019 SDL TRADOS STUDIO 2019 SR2+ or higher),

is a batch task, which provides various options for anonymizing the files in a Studio project.

Using a batch task for this provides the ability to add this task to a set of custom batch tasks and automatically anonymize your files as part of something else:

Once installed, you will find the application under -

Batch Task

First, select (or create) the project you wish to anonymize-

Now select Batch Tasks- SDL Batch Anonymizer

Please note: If you created a Trados Live Project, you will need to open the file(s) locally first-

Create your custom batch task-

Provide a unique name for the Task Sequence and Description

Backup

The application automatically zips the project and creates a backup

C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\SDL Community\SDLBatchAnonymizer\Projects Backup

Project Anonymization

Username Options

Select SDL Batch Anonymizer to change/delete values -

If the above values (Created by-Last Modified by-Comment author-Tracked Changes) are left blank, they will be deleted if they are found in the file. 

Without using The SDL Batch Anonymizer, the translation origin is shown-

for example:

NMT

Revision

Translation Memory

Batch Anonymizer Settings

There are two ways of carrying out the anonymization when the SDL Batch Anonymizer batch task is chosen:

• Choose from various options what should be anonymized
• Anonymize all values

Here you can select specific values (or leave blank). The enabled values will appear in the file as the relevant author.

In the example below, in xliff:

• "Created by" value for segments will be replaced with 'Steve'
• For all comment types (File, Segment and section) the author will be 'Peter'

After selecting the values- click Finish- Close

Reopen the file 

After running the task -

The Translation origin/Revision and TM details have been anonymized.

To Anonymize ALL values - Save the file

Return to the Batch Anonymize settings and select -

After running Anonymize all values (and reopening the file) - all values are removed.

Resource origins options

Using these options you can select if the MT and TM markers should be anonymized completely or should be anonymized with Translation Memory Match.

NOTE: You can set the score you'd like the segment to receive and also add the name of a TM to be used in the SDLXLIFF. 

Once applied the segment will appear as an edited fuzzy match based on your settings:

Before Anonymization-

After Anonymization