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Current translator poll

How do you handle clients who send uneditable files?

By anonymous

Politely ask them for an editable source.	52.2%
Convert them myself with OCR/tools.	21.7%
Charge an extra formatting fee.	13.0%
Cry a little, then manual retype.	7.2%
N/A (please comment).	5.8%