IRIS PDF OCR Support for Studio – Chinese image-based PDF – PDF conversion not working properly

Question

Hi! I would like to test the capabilities of the IRIS OCR for image-based Chinese PDFs. 
 However, the result is not as expected (see original file):

SDLXLIFF preview: 
 
 Original PDF in Chinese (see attached): 
 
 Thanks for helping! Best regards, Manuel 
 zh (image based).pdf

Paul · Answer

Manuel Hörmann 
 
I doubt it would even be considered a bug... although I'd agree with you on that one. The preview is there to help get the settings right, and not for reviewing the text. However, I can imagine it being important to be able to read the text sometimes to help with the clarification of the settings. 
 
You should log this via your support account.

Peter Lehn · Answer

Hi Manuel, 
 The behavior, as is, is intended, although it may not look like it at first. 
 Here is why: 
 The preview generated is generated from the source language of the first language pair listed in 
 File > Options > Language Pairs 
 In your case the source language seems to have been English or some other language using the western alphabet, while the document was Chinese and with the wrong source language the characters were not recognized correctly. 
 If on the other hand you check the preview during project creation, or in the project settings afterward, you try the preview, there usually is only a single language pair present, and the correct one will be used automatically. 
 Kind regards 
 Peter Lehn | Support Engineer | SDL | Language Technologies Division

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IRIS PDF OCR Support for Studio – Chinese image-based PDF – PDF conversion not working properly