Best Practices for Table Transcription

  • Published on Sep 17, 2024
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Table Transcription

During Table Transcription, keyers can sometimes have difficulties finding cells that are pending transcription or finding transcribed cells that need to be reviewed. To save time when navigating to different cells, we recommend following the best practices listed below.

Go to next cell

If a table contains many columns, and you zoom in on a document, you may have difficulties finding the next cell in the table during Table Transcription. We recommend pressing Tab to automatically go to the next cell.

Go to next empty cell

If a table contains many cells and most of them have already been transcribed, you may have difficulties finding all cells that do not have a transcription. We recommend pressing Control + E to automatically go to the next empty cell.

Reviewing blank table cells during Manual Transcription tasks

If the Create Manual Transcription Task for Tables with Blank Cells setting is enabled, the machine will always send blank cells in transcribed tables to be supervised manually, regardless of confidence.
If this setting is disabled and the machine has high confidence that a blank cell in a table should remain blank, it will not be flagged for a keyer to review during the Manual Transcription task for the table. This feature helps keyers focus on transcribing cells rather than reviewing cells that have no text, leading to faster task completion.

To use this setting:

  1. Go to the Top-level Flows page (Flows > Top-level Flows), and find the flow you want to enable this setting for.

  2. Click on the Open → link for the top-level flow, and then click on the name of the top-level flow in the table below the flow diagram.

  3. If you’re enabling the setting for v38’s “Document Processing” flow:

    1. Click on the Start Document Processing Subflow Block.
      Make sure to click on the card instead of View. If you click on View, you’ll be redirected to the read-only subflow. 

    2. In the Settings Type drop-down list, click General Transcription.

  4. If you’re enabling the setting in a Document Processing flow created in v37 or v36, click on the Manual Transcription Block.

  5. Select the Create Manual Transcription Task for Tables with Blank Cells checkbox.

  6. Click Save.