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I have installed Textbridge to be invoked by Canosacn, the bundled
software with my LiDE 25 scanner. After recognising the text it loads Word 2003 automatically. When I scan two columns of newsprint Word 2003 ignores the separate columns although the two columns are indicated by soft carriage returns. If I switch to two columns in Word 2003 the second column is completely lost. I understand that Word 1997 accepts the text as two separate columns. Can I achieve this in Word 2003? Colin |
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This is a function of the scanner OCR software and its (in)ability to
produce an accurate representation of the document. Unless things have improved dramatically in recent versions, Textbridge makes a dog's breakfast of the formatting and is probably best used to scan to plain text. You can then format the document yourself more simply than try to deal with what Textbridge throws at you. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org wrote: I have installed Textbridge to be invoked by Canosacn, the bundled software with my LiDE 25 scanner. After recognising the text it loads Word 2003 automatically. When I scan two columns of newsprint Word 2003 ignores the separate columns although the two columns are indicated by soft carriage returns. If I switch to two columns in Word 2003 the second column is completely lost. I understand that Word 1997 accepts the text as two separate columns. Can I achieve this in Word 2003? Colin |
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:10:30 +0200, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: This is a function of the scanner OCR software and its (in)ability to produce an accurate representation of the document. Unless things have improved dramatically in recent versions, Textbridge makes a dog's breakfast of the formatting and is probably best used to scan to plain text. You can then format the document yourself more simply than try to deal with what Textbridge throws at you. Now solved. The thing is to highlight the two columns by dragging over each one separately. When I dragged over the two together it treated then as a single column. Colin |