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I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification |
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I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
Unless you run a scanned image through special optical character recognition
software, all you have is a picture of text, not text. You can manipulate it the same way you can other pictures, but you can't cut the picture apart (the individual letters and words in the picture) and change their relationship to each other. Long way of saying you need to use the OCR software that came with your scanner or that built into later editions of Word. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Golf" wrote in message ... I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word. It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification |
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I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
Yeah, some OCR scanning just isn't that great. The best you can do is get
everything out of the text boxes first, and go from there. ************ Anne Troy VBA Project Manager www.OfficeArticles.com "Golf" wrote in message ... I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word. It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification |
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I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.
That's OCR software for you - it tends to create a dog's breakfast of
formatting. Some applications are much worse than others. Microsoft's Office Document Imaging will kill all the formatting and produce just the text, or you could scan to plain text and reformat in Word - or you could buy better OCR software. It doesn't get any better than Finereader - but even that isn't perfect. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Golf wrote: I scanned a document and can't control formatting in Word. It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification |
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