OCR German characters in scanned PDF file to German Word document

Multinational companies like real estate, health care, and legal professions inherently have a lot of paper-based transactions which at some point need to be faxed or scanned for document archiving or sharing with others. With the OCR features, eePDF PDF to Word Converter is capable of extracting text in different languages from image-based PDF files.

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The following steps will show you how to use eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter to OCR German characters in scanned PDF file to German Word document.

1. Run eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter

After you have installed eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter, please right click the icon; > choose [Open] on the drop down menu. Then, you will find the following interface of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter on your computer screen.

Figure 1: Interface of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter

2. Input a scanned PDF file containing German characters.

The quickest way for you to add a scanned PDF file is to drag it to the list box of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter. After you add the PDF files, you can view the file name and file size in the list box..

Figure 2: Drag the PDF file to the list box

3. Choose option 10: [OCR PDF file (Language: German)] in the pull down listing of [Output Option] combo box.

This is the most important step for your computer to recognize foreign languages in the scanned PDF file. The OCR function supports six languages including English, French, German, etc. You should choose the corresponding option in the [Output Option] combo box. Here, choose option 10, because our source PDF file is written in German.

Figure 3: Select Option 10 [OCR PDF file (Language: German)]

4. Export the Word document

Click the [Convert] button in the interface, the following [Save As] dialog box will appear on the computer screen. Then three steps are needed to export the Word document. You should
Select a directory in the [Save in] combo box and the list box in the [Save As] dialog box;
Type the file name in the [File name] edit box;
Click [Save] in the [Save As] dialog box to save the new created Word document.
The computer will close the [Save As] dialog box, and open the new created German Word document by default, and then you can view the effect of conversion. OCR German characters in scanned PDF file to German Word document

Figure 4: Export the German Word document

5. Evaluation

The following comparison is between a part of the scanned PDF file with German characters and the output German Word document. The text contexts are well preserved in the output German Word document. eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter successfully OCR German characters in scanned PDF file to German Word document

Figure 5a: the source scanned PDF file

Figure 5b: The output German Word document