OCR Portuguese characters in scanned PDF file to Portuguese Word document

OCR is needed when you want to convert a scanned PDF file to text-editable and searchable document. Without OCR, a computer would only be able to understand the contents in the scanned PDF file as pictures. In eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter, there are six OCR options which can support you to do such thing as OCR Portuguese characters in scanned PDF file to Portuguese Word document.

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The following will show you how to OCR Portuguese characters in scanned PDF file to Portuguese Word document. Of course, you can also use eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter to extract text written in any of the other five languages from scanned PDF files to Word documents in the same way.

1 Run eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter

You should right click the icon of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter; > choose [Open] on the drop down menu. Then, the following interface of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter will appear on the computer screen.

Figure 1: Interface of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter

2. Input the scanned PDF file containing Portuguese characters.

You should drag the scanned PDF file containing Portuguese to the list box of eePDF PDF to Word OCR Converter. This is the easiest way.

Figure 2: Drag the scanned PDF file to the list box

3. Select the last option:

[OCR PDF file (Language: Portuguese)] in the pull down listing in [Output Option] combo box. After you choose the last option, your computer is able to recognize Portuguese characters in the scanned PDF file and can convert it to Portuguese Word document.

Figure 3: Select the last option

4. Export the Word document

The file format DOC is the default, so you don’t need to set output format by yourself if you want to convert PDF to Word. You can directly click [Convert] in the interface, and then select a directory in the [Save As] dialog box; >type the file name in the edit box in the [Save As] dialog box; > click [Save] to close the [Save As] dialog box and to export the new created Portuguese 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

The following comparison is the source PDF file: the scanned PDF with Portuguese characters and the output Portuguese Word document. The contents are correctly preserved in the Portuguese Word document.

Figure 5a: before

Figure 5b: after