{"id":889,"date":"2026-11-09T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coolmedialife.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2026-11-09T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T07:22:28","slug":"part-5-convert-ocr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coolmedialife.com\/index.php\/wordeditor\/part-5-convert-ocr\/","title":{"rendered":"Document Editor Plus \u2013 Conversion &amp; OCR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\/* ==========================================================================\n   Document Editor Plus \u2014 User Guide for coolmedialife.com\n   Theme: Occasio. 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Applies to Posts and Pages alike.\n   -------------------------------------------------------------------------- *\/\n@media (min-width: 880px) {\n  body.single:has(#deh-guide) .site-content,\n  body.page:has(#deh-guide) .site-content {\n    display: block;\n  }\n  body.single:has(#deh-guide) .site-content .site-main,\n  body.page:has(#deh-guide) .site-content .site-main {\n    max-width: 1160px;\n    flex-basis: auto;\n  }\n  body.single:has(#deh-guide) .site-content .sidebar,\n  body.page:has(#deh-guide) .site-content .sidebar {\n    display: none;\n  }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"deh-guide\">\n  <div class=\"deh-layout\">\n    <aside class=\"deh-rail\">\n      <p class=\"deh-rail-title\">User guide<\/p>\n      <ol class=\"deh-rail-list\">\n        <li><a href=\"..\/portable-word-editor-for-win10\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">1<\/span>Getting started<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-2-doc\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">2<\/span>DOC editing<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-3-xls\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">3<\/span>XLS editing<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-4-ppt-pdf\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">4<\/span>PPT &amp; PDF<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-5-convert-ocr\/\" class=\"is-current\" aria-current=\"page\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">5<\/span>Conversion &amp; OCR<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-6-settings\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">6<\/span>Settings &amp; reference<\/a><\/li>\n        <li><a href=\"..\/part-7-faq\/\"><span class=\"deh-rail-num\">7<\/span>Troubleshooting &amp; FAQ<\/a><\/li>\n      <\/ol>\n    <\/aside>\n\n    <div class=\"deh-body\">\n      <p class=\"deh-part\">Part 5 of 7 &middot; Conversion &amp; OCR<\/p>\n      <nav class=\"deh-toc\" aria-label=\"On this page\">\n        <p class=\"deh-toc-title\">On this page<\/p>\n        <ul class=\"deh-toc-list\">\n          <li><a href=\"#deh-convert\">Batch conversion<\/a><\/li>\n          <li><a href=\"#deh-ocr\">OCR for scanned PDFs<\/a><\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n\n<h2 id=\"deh-convert\">Batch conversion<\/h2>\n\n  <p>The Convert page holds three independent queues &mdash; one per direction. Switching tabs never loses the list you already built.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"deh-table\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr><th>Tab<\/th><th>Accepts<\/th><th>Produces<\/th><th>OCR<\/th><\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>DOC\/XLS\/PPT &rarr; PDF<\/td>\n          <td class=\"deh-mono-list\">.docx .doc .dotx .dot .rtf .txt .htm .html .xlsx .xlsm .xlsb .xls .xltx .xltm .xlt .csv .tsv .pptx .pptm .potx .potm<\/td>\n          <td><code>.pdf<\/code><\/td>\n          <td>No<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>PDF &rarr; DOC<\/td>\n          <td class=\"deh-mono-list\">.pdf<\/td>\n          <td><code>.docx<\/code><\/td>\n          <td>Optional<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>PDF &rarr; XLS<\/td>\n          <td class=\"deh-mono-list\">.pdf<\/td>\n          <td><code>.xlsx<\/code><\/td>\n          <td>Optional<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h3>Convert a batch<\/h3>\n  <ol class=\"deh-steps\">\n    <li>Pick the direction tab. Each tab has its own file list, progress and status.<\/li>\n    <li>Add files: drag them onto the drop area, or use <em>Browse files<\/em>. Files that do not belong to that direction are skipped with a message and never enter the list.<\/li>\n    <li>Check the output directory at the bottom. It defaults to each file&#8217;s own folder; <em>Browse<\/em> changes it for the whole queue.<\/li>\n    <li>Press <em>Start Convert<\/em>. Rows move from Queued to Converting to Done, and the bar below counts finished files.<\/li>\n    <li>When the batch ends, the output folder opens with the converted files selected (if the setting is on).<\/li>\n  <\/ol>\n\n  <h3>Queue rules worth knowing<\/h3>\n  <div class=\"deh-table\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr><th>Behavior<\/th><th>Details<\/th><\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>One job at a time<\/td>\n          <td>Only one conversion runs in the whole app, whichever tab started it. Other queues stay usable but cannot start until the running batch finishes.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Start re-runs the queue<\/td>\n          <td>Every press starts again from the first file and resets statuses; it is not a &ldquo;resume&rdquo;. Files already converted keep their output path unless you changed the output folder.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Never overwrites<\/td>\n          <td>If the target name exists, the output becomes <code>name (2).pdf<\/code>, then <code>name (3).pdf<\/code>, and so on. Nothing in the folder is replaced.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Cancel<\/td>\n          <td>Appears only while a batch is running. It stops the queue; files finished before the cancel stay on disk.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Clear list<\/td>\n          <td>Empties the current tab when it is idle. Other tabs are untouched.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Progress<\/td>\n          <td>The engine reports no live percentage, so an active row reads &ldquo;converting&hellip;&rdquo;. The bar tracks how many files are finished, not bytes.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Failures<\/td>\n          <td>The row&#8217;s status turns red &mdash; hover it for the reason. A summary appears under the status bar, and details are written to the app log.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Skipped files<\/td>\n          <td>Empty files (0 bytes) and containers that are not valid Office packages are rejected up front, with the reason shown instead of a failed row.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  \n\n<h2 id=\"deh-ocr\">OCR for scanned PDFs<\/h2>\n\n  <p>The two PDF directions can recognise text in scans. The controls sit on the same row as the file count, under the <em>PDF &rarr; DOC<\/em> and <em>PDF &rarr; XLS<\/em> tabs.<\/p>\n\n  <div class=\"deh-table\">\n    <table>\n      <thead>\n        <tr><th>Control<\/th><th>What it does<\/th><\/tr>\n      <\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Use OCR<\/td>\n          <td>Turns recognition on for the queue. It is greyed out when the recognition engine or its language data is missing &mdash; hover it for the exact reason.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Language<\/td>\n          <td>One choice per run. Chinese, Japanese and Korean recognisers automatically pair with English so mixed lines still work.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        <tr>\n          <td>Skip text PDFs<\/td>\n          <td>On by default. A PDF that already carries selectable text on every page is converted directly: faster, and the original characters are kept instead of being re-recognised. Clear it to force recognition, for example when the text layer is garbled or empty.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <h3>When to turn OCR on<\/h3>\n  <ul>\n    <li><strong>Scanned documents and photos of pages<\/strong> &mdash; there is no text layer, so without OCR the output would contain images only.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Mixed batches<\/strong> &mdash; leave <em>Skip text PDFs<\/em> on. Born-digital files take the fast path while scans are recognised.<\/li>\n    <li><strong>Broken text layers<\/strong> &mdash; turn skipping off to rebuild the text from the page image.<\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n\n  <h3>Adding a language<\/h3>\n  <ol class=\"deh-steps\">\n    <li>Open the <code>tessdata<\/code> folder next to the application.<\/li>\n    <li>Drop in the language file you need &mdash; for example <code>chi_sim.traineddata<\/code> for Simplified Chinese. English ships with the app.<\/li>\n    <li>Restart the app. The list is read from disk at startup, so the new language simply appears in the dropdown &mdash; there is nothing to configure.<\/li>\n  <\/ol>\n\n  <div class=\"deh-note\">\n    <span class=\"deh-note-ico\" aria-hidden=\"true\">i<\/span>\n    <p><strong>Recognition is per page and can be slow.<\/strong> Pages are rendered at high resolution before being recognised, which is what makes small type readable. 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