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OCR to MS Word to InDesign
What would be an optimal way to transfer an OCR'd (optical character
recognition) piece, in this case an entire book, into MS Word, retaining formatting? I'm beginning with Abbyy FIneReader OCR which allows you to scan into MS Word. Ultimately the MS Word doc will be transferred into InDesign for final layout, so the Word doc should be compatible with ID. Sorry if this question crosses over too many other programs, but the MS Word phase is relevant. I'd like to maintain all the original formatting, only changing the font. Thanks! Luca Luca |
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OCR to MS Word to InDesign
Ciao Luca
Luca del Carlo wrote: What would be an optimal way to transfer an OCR'd (optical character recognition) piece, in this case an entire book, into MS Word, retaining formatting? I'm beginning with Abbyy FIneReader OCR which allows you to scan into MS Word. Ultimately the MS Word doc will be transferred into InDesign for final layout, so the Word doc should be compatible with ID. Sorry if this question crosses over too many other programs, but the MS Word phase is relevant. I'd like to maintain all the original formatting, only changing the font. very tough approach IMHO: there's no clean way to even import from a Scan into Word without minor changes (rather: you would be very lucky if you don't get different line endings and hence different pagination there to begin with). Same goes for Word ID. And even if you'd start with the original file (before the paper or PDF you are going to scan has been produced), changing font in itself, in general, means different lines and hence pagination. Unless you're talking about a fixed-width font (like Courier), each letter has a different width, and I wouldn't know two fonts that match letter widths for the whole alphabet ... HTH Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT | \ / | MVP | Scientific Reports X Against HTML | for | with Word? / \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/ |
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