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Deleting Text Boxes without Deleting Text.
I have performed an OCR on a PDF to produce a Word Document. The conversion
worked very well, but each page of the text is in a text box. Is there a way to remove the text box without deleting any of the text? This document cannot have text boxes because we are loading it into a program that cannot recognize text boxes. For now, I am individually copying the text from each of the boxes, pasting it outside of the text box, and deleting the text box. This seems really inefficient. Is there a better/faster way? Thanks. |
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Deleting Text Boxes without Deleting Text.
You could convert the text boxes to frames and then remove the frames
(Ctrl+Q will likely accomplish that). If you convert one text box to a frame (Format Text Box | Text Box | Convert to Frame), you should then be able to immediately select another and F4 to repeat; continue till you've done them all. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "green" wrote in message ... I have performed an OCR on a PDF to produce a Word Document. The conversion worked very well, but each page of the text is in a text box. Is there a way to remove the text box without deleting any of the text? This document cannot have text boxes because we are loading it into a program that cannot recognize text boxes. For now, I am individually copying the text from each of the boxes, pasting it outside of the text box, and deleting the text box. This seems really inefficient. Is there a better/faster way? Thanks. |
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Deleting Text Boxes without Deleting Text.
The probability is that they are already frames. A number of OCR software
applications format documents using frames. This makes the document look pretty, but useless for reformatting without a lot of work. You really need better OCR software. Though no OCR software is perfect. Finereader 9 can format your OCR document without those irritating frames. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org green wrote: I have performed an OCR on a PDF to produce a Word Document. The conversion worked very well, but each page of the text is in a text box. Is there a way to remove the text box without deleting any of the text? This document cannot have text boxes because we are loading it into a program that cannot recognize text boxes. For now, I am individually copying the text from each of the boxes, pasting it outside of the text box, and deleting the text box. This seems really inefficient. Is there a better/faster way? Thanks. |
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