[green]

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.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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.

[Graham Mayor]

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.