diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bad4127..768111e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,4 +2,9 @@
 
 OCR plugin for ksnip.
 
-See ksnip README for install and usage instruction [here](https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip#plugins).
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+See ksnip README for install and usage instruction [here](https://github.com/ksnip/ksnip#plugins).
+
+
+
+## About Fork
+Fork created to address the issue of missing accents in the OCR output.
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diff --git a/src/OcrWrapper.cpp b/src/OcrWrapper.cpp
index 1b75f04..9d6cebd 100644
--- a/src/OcrWrapper.cpp
+++ b/src/OcrWrapper.cpp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ QString OcrWrapper::recognize(const QPixmap &pixmap, const QString &dataPath) co
 
 QString OcrWrapper::recognizeInner(const QPixmap &pixmap, char * dataPath) const
 {
-	if (mTessApi->Init(dataPath, "eng") == 0)
+	if (mTessApi->Init(dataPath, "por") == 0)
 	{
 		auto pix = makePixFromPixmap(pixmap);
 		mTessApi->SetImage(pix);
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ QString OcrWrapper::recognizeInner(const QPixmap &pixmap, char * dataPath) const
 
 		pixDestroy(&pix);
 
-		return QString::fromLatin1(recognizedText.data());
+        return QString::fromUtf8(recognizedText.data());
 
-	} else {
+        } else {
 		qCritical("Failed to initialize Tesseract");
 		return {};
 	}