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How many languages I can use to OCR from PDF files for renaming?

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Question

I like your A-PDF Preview and Rename, but I only have English in the OCR dropdown-list. How can I add others (for me, French and Italian) to use in your program?

Solution

A-PDF Preview and Rename (free download here) is improved with OCR functionality.

A-PDF also provides you multiple language files for OCR now: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Basque.

Download your needed ( OCR Language Files) from our website firstly, after downloading do the following things:

  1. Open the root path of language, the default path is your application path (such as C:\Program Files\A-PDF Preview and Rename\), you can also set another path as the root path.
  2. Find folder "tessdata" in the root path, unzip your file to this folder.

Then you can use A-PDF Preview and Rename with below operations:

  1. Add PDF Documents: click "Add PDF Document" icon to add files to the list;
  2. Preview: click some file, you can view the page thumbnails and content from the right side box;
  3. OCR: choose Language as "French" or other, click "Select text and OCR" button, and draw grab box on specified text, click "OCR" icon, the extracted text will be listed in the "Rename As" box;
  4. Rename: click "Rename" button, the new name will be listed in "Renamed" column.

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