[L. F.]

How do I remove column lines from scanned printed material?

[Graham Mayor]

You will need either a graphics editor or OCR software.

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L. F. wrote:
How do I remove column lines from scanned printed material?

[CyberTaz]

"Scanned printed material" is in all probability an object - a picture of
the scanned page. It cannot be edited in a word processing program.

There are a few 'workarounds' - such as covering the line with a filled,
borderless rectangle or line created with Word's drawing tools - but to
actually remove it you'll need to open the image file in a graphics editing
program. Once you edit it there you can save the changes then insert the
finished image into your doc instead of the original.

Alternatively you can scan it again using an Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) scanning program if you have one available. That will give you an
editable text file, sans lines or other graphic elements - but will also
have to be thoroughly checked for erroneous characters - no OCR software is
flawless, at least not on every scan:-)

Good Luck |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 12/31/07 8:51 AM, in article
, "L. F." L. F.
@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

How do I remove column lines from scanned printed material?

[Don]

CyberTaz wrote in
:

"Scanned printed material" is in all probability an object - a picture
of the scanned page. It cannot be edited in a word processing program.

There are a few 'workarounds' - such as covering the line with a
filled, borderless rectangle or line created with Word's drawing tools
- but to actually remove it you'll need to open the image file in a
graphics editing program. Once you edit it there you can save the
changes then insert the finished image into your doc instead of the
original.

Alternatively you can scan it again using an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) scanning program if you have one available. That
will give you an editable text file, sans lines or other graphic
elements - but will also have to be thoroughly checked for erroneous
characters - no OCR software is flawless, at least not on every
scan:-)

Good Luck |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 12/31/07 8:51 AM, in article
, "L. F." L. F.
@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:

How do I remove column lines from scanned printed material?



I agree with Taz here.
If you have column lines?
You have an image scanned as opposed to OCR text which is what your
looking for.
Use the OCR software that came with your scanner.