Can your PDF converter recognize Italian characters in a scanned PDF file?

A common PDF converter can hardly convert a scanned PDF file to a Word document, let alone can it recognize Italian characters a scanned PDF file and convert this PDF file to an Italian Word document. Luckily, eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter is able to recognize Italian characters in scanned PDF files as well as to recognize any of the following five languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in PDF files.

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This article will focus on how to use eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter to convert a scanned PDF file containing Italian characters to an Italian Word document.

1. Open eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter

You can simply double click the icon of this converter. Or, in a safer way, you should 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 Italian characters.

If you want to input a scanned PDF file with Italian characters, you can drag the PDF file to the list box of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter. As soon as you can view the file name and file size of it in the list box, you can go to set the output options.

Figure 2: Drag the PDF file to the list box

3. Select option 11: [OCR PDF file(Language: Italian) ] in the pull down listing in [Output Option] combo box.

If you want to convert a scanned PDF file to editable Word document, this step is essential. Because after you choose option 11, your computer is able to recognize Italian characters in scanned PDF files to Italian Word document.

Figure 3: Select Option 11

4. Export the Word document

Because DOC is the output format set by default, you can directly click the [Convert] button in the interface, and then, you will see the following dialog box. Then, you should select a directory; >type the file name in the edit box; > click [Save] to save the new created Word document. The computer will open the Word document by default, and then you can view the effect of conversion.

Figure 4: Export the Word document

5. Evaluation

Look at the following comparison and to see how well eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter can recognize Italian characters in a scanned PDF file and convert it to an Italian Word document. The text contexts are well preserved in the output Word document.

Figure 5a: The original scanned PDF

Figure 5b: the output Italian Word document