Cisdem PDF Converter OCR for Windows User Guide

Cisdem PDF Converter OCR for Windows is a OCR capatibility PDF Converter tool, which can convert PDF, scanned PDF and images to a various copyable, serachable and editable file formats. Otherwise, it can also create a various of files to PDF file. In this guide, we will show you the steps how to convert and create PDF files with Cisdem PDF Converter OCR on your PC.

Part 1 Download & Install

1. You can download the installation package of Cisdem PDF Converter OCR  from the below link.

Free Download  

 

2. Install Cisdem PDF Converter OCR with the downloaded package.

Double-click the .exe file to run it.

Select a folder to install the program (It is recommended to save it under D: drive instead of C: Drive)

Click Next > Next > Install to continue the installation process, when the below window appears, it means that the program has been installed successfully.

 

Part 2 Activation (Optional)

After installing the program, you need to activate the program if you want to use the full version features.

1. Find Cisdem PDF Converter OCR on the desktop or in the folder where you installed it, double click to run it, and then click the key icon at the right upper corner.

2. Copy-n-paste the license code into the popped-up window, click Activate.

 

Part 3 Application Operating

Part 3.1 How to convert PDF/scanned PDF to DOCX?

Step 1 Add PDFs

There are 2 ways to add the PDFs:

1. Click  button, select the target PDFs in the pop-up window, click Open;

2. Drag-n-drop the target PDFs on the main interface directly;

To delete the added PDFs, you can just select the target PDFs, click  button or press Delete button on your keyboard.

 

Tips: If you want to convert a password protected PDF, you need to click icon of PDF list to enter the open password.

 

Step 2 Select range (Optional)

If you don't want to convert all pages, you can select "Range”, type the page's number you want to convert and separate the page number with comma.

 

Step 3 Select the output format as Docx.

Tips:

If you want to do more settings to get an acurate result, you can click after the output format to change advanced settings.

1. Priority: Cisdem priorities text recognition by default, you can also change the priority to text layout.

2. OCR Recognition:

a. All File: Normally Cisdem will auto recognized the imported PDF is image-based or not, and choose to use OCR or not. If Cisdem fails to use the OCR function to the image-based PDF file, you can choose "All File" to force using OCR with the imported PDF file.

b. Disable OCR recognition: If the PDF file you want to convert is a normal PDF file( and editable PDF file), please choose this option to convert your PDF file.

 

Step 4 Click  to select a save location of the converted file, and then click  to start conversion. 

When the conversion is done, you can directly click   or   to bring you to the save location of the converted file.

 

Part 3.2 How to convert scanned PDF/image to searchable PDF?

If you want to convert a scanned PDF/image to a normal PDF( searchable and copyable PDF), you will need to install an add-on OCR module.

Step 1 Add scanned PDF files/images

You can either drag-n-drop or click  to import the scanned PDF/images into the program, and then a window will pop up to ask you to download the OCR module or not.

Click OK, it will download and install the OCR module automatically.

 

Step 2 Select range (Optional)

If you don't want to convert all pages, you can select "Range”, type the page's number you want to convert and separate the page number with comma.

 

Step 3 Click  to select a language.

 

Step 4 Click  to select a save location of the converted file, and then click  to start conversion. 

 

When the conversion is done, you can directly click   or   to bring you to the save location of the converted file.

 

Part 3.3 How to create PDF from other file formats?

Step 1 Switch to the Creator tab, and then add files into the program.

There are 2 ways to add the files:

1. Click  button, select the target PDFs in the pop-up window, click Open;

2. Drag-n-drop the target files on the main interface directly;

To delete the added files, you can just select the target files, click  button or press Delete button on your keyboard.

 

Step 2 Click  to select a save location of the created PDF file, and then click  to start conversion. 

When the conversion is done, you can directly click   or   to bring you to the save location of the converted file.

Tips: If you want to merge all the files into one PDF, just need to turn on  switch before clicking "Create".

 

Part 4 Update Application

We always suggest users to use the latest version of the program.

When you launch Cisdem PDF Converter OCR, Cisdem will auto check for updates.

Also, you can click run Cisdem PDF Converter OCR, click   > Check for Updates… to manually update it.