TransAbacus
WebSite Word Counter for Translators
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1)  What are the minimum requirements for TransAbacus?
TransAbacus runs on any PC with:

- Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP 4, Windows XP SP 2, Windows Millenium, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7 

   - .NET Framework 2.0 installed (if you don’t have this, you can download it from our web page)

   - 100 MB RAM

   - 20 Mb free hard disk space 

2)  How do I know if my PC has .Net Framework 2.0 installed?

Goto Control Panel (Start -> Control Panel), and click the "Add or remove programs" option.  You will see here a list with the programs your PC has installed.  If you can find the program "Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0", then it means that it's installed on your PC.  If not, you can download it from here.
3)  How can I buy a TransAbacus registration code? When you select the Buy option on this page, you will be redirected to a secure payment page, provided by our payment processor Plimus, wich supports several payment methods like credit cards, paypal, checks, among others.  Once the payment is confirmed, you will receive by email a registration code (a 25 digits number).  You must enter this code into your application (using the Help -> Register option) to register your application and remove the Trial mode limitations.
4)  Is there any limitation in the web sites TransAbacus can be used?
In practical terms there are no limitations regarding the size of the site to count, we have successfully tested TransAbacus in sites with more than 5,000 web pages and more than 2,000,000 words.  However, TransAbacus stores temporal information in RAM memory, and as this is a finite recurse, we can not ensure that there not exist a website big enough to TransAbacus.  Regarding the website's technology, TransAbacus does not count flash files, and it does not support java menus, although you can always use the sitemap page to avoid this kinds of menus.  Please check the restrictions section of the user manual for more information.
5)  What are the description, keywords and alt text columns?

Description and keywords are descriptive text inside the html code that is mainly used by search engines to rank the web page.  This is why the translation of these tags is as important as the translation of the web page body.  Alt. text is the text the user can see when he hovers the mouse over an image.  This text is also used by search engines to index images.

6)  TransAbacus counting is slighty different than MS Word counting.  Why?

TransAbacus does not count some non-alphanumeric symbols as words. MS Word’s "Count words" option does.  For example, the string "- hello" is counted as 2 words in MS Word (because it counts the character "-" as one word), but for TransAbacus counts 1 word (as expected) 

If you have any question that is not answered here, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail at support@transabacus.com.
You can also download the TransAbacus user manual here:

 

 TransAbacus user manual