Scanned Portuguese documents — contracts (contratos), invoices (notas fiscais), certificates (certificados) — can be converted to searchable PDFs with free OCR. The engine correctly handles Portuguese-specific characters: ã, â, à, á, ç, ê, é, í, ô, ó, õ, ú, and ü.
Go to pdfeditor.onl/ocr-pdf. No account or installation required. Works in any browser on desktop and mobile.
Click to upload or drag your scanned Portuguese document. The tool renders each page at 2× resolution for accurate character recognition.
Tip: For best results with Portuguese OCR, scan documents at 300 DPI or higher. The nasal vowels ã and õ require clean scan quality for reliable recognition.
Choose Portuguese (Português) from the language selector. The Tesseract Portuguese model handles both European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese — the character set is identical.
After scanning, review the text overlays on each page. Pay attention to ç (cedilla), which OCR sometimes confuses with c, and ã/õ nasal vowels which may require correction in lower-quality scans.
Click Download PDF. The document is now searchable in Portuguese — use Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on Mac) to search for specific words or phrases in any PDF reader.
Yes. The Portuguese language model covers both variants — the written character set is the same, and regional spelling differences do not affect OCR accuracy.
Yes. Standard printed notas fiscais are well-handled by the Portuguese OCR model. For structured data extraction, copy the recognized text to a spreadsheet after OCR.