PDF OCR is an interesting tool that can serve as an alternative to that web application that we had mentioned previously and whose objective was the same; Primarily, both this and the web application to which we have referred, have the function of lto extract the texts that are part of a PDF file.
Of course in the web application that we mentioned previously, this task could also be carried out with an image, which must contain some type of text to extract. What concerns to PDFOCR, This is going to be an application that we can install on our computer personal, being therefore a more effective solution according to the developer; Among the many advantages that this application has, we will mention a disadvantage, which is implicitly related to the payment that whoever uses it must make.
How does PDF OCR work with our files in Windows?
Nothing faster and more effective than what the developer offers us with PDFOCR, in as much as the application manages to process the PDF file in a very agile way; There are a few features that have been implemented in its interface, something that we will detail a little later while we discuss the way to use each of the functions that we will encounter once we execute it:
- Home. Once we run the tool, 2 options will appear, one to extract texts from a PDF file and the other to convert an image into PDF.
- Extract text from PDF. This is the first option to choose, which will offer us a fairly complete and not at all complex interface when extracting any type of text from a PDF file.
- Image to PDF. If we choose the 2nd option, we will only have to import an image that contains text inside to later convert it into a PDF file.
If we choose the first option, a small guide will immediately appear, in which the user is told that they should open a PDF document and then click on "Start OCR."
If we close this window we will enter the application interface itself; At the top we will find a series of controls that will help us navigate between different pages of the PDF file, in the event that it has a large number of them.
The buttons that we can admire at the top refer to:
- Open to PDF file.
- Go back one page.
- Go one page forward.
- Go to the beginning of the PDF document.
- Go to the end of the PDF document.
- Zoom in or out.
- Dock the page view.
- Start the conversion.
- Exit.
As an initial option we must choose the first icon (open the PDF document), and then must locate the place where our file is located. All its pages will appear on the left side, at which time the user must choose the one from which they are interested in extracting the texts.
In this sense, the user can decide to extract texts from one, several or all pages, all depending on their needs.
The resulting file will appear in a new window and in a plain text application, where we will only have to select all the content and copy it to be able to paste it into any other application.
Convert an image to PDF with PDFOCR
If we choose the second option instead, we will find an interface very similar to what we described previously, with the difference that here we could reach add several images so that they are part of a single PDF file. The interface is quite intuitive, so a user who uses PDFOCR It doesn't necessarily have to be someone so experienced.
It is worth mentioning that the evaluation version of PDFOCR has a certain number of errors when recognizing the texts of a PDF document, a situation that is not repeated in the paid version, perhaps this being a great disadvantage since every user would like to be able to test the functionalities of the tool before having to buy it.
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