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DSpider · 12-06-2011, 04:36 AM

Word didn't put the text in text boxes. FineReader did, when you exported as "Exact Copy".

Word didn't add those styles either. FineReader v10 (don't know about version 11 yet) creates separate styles for bold and italic characters, and even MULTIPLE styles for the exact same bold or italic characters (instead of just using a previous style). Come to think of it, it's probably because the pages weren't perfectly flat when they were scanned, and/or the author sparsely used a different character spacing for various lines (so that they fit on the page). Hmmm... So it may not be FineReader's fault after all, for all these "ghost" styles...

However, there is a way to export to plain .txt without losing all the bold, italics and any other formatting you'd like, which would essentially eliminate all the styles. Check out this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=153764

12-06-2011, 04:36 AM	#4
DSpider Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 343115 Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Romania Device: PW2 2014	Word didn't put the text in text boxes. FineReader did, when you exported as "Exact Copy". Word didn't add those styles either. FineReader v10 (don't know about version 11 yet) creates separate styles for bold and italic characters, and even MULTIPLE styles for the exact same bold or italic characters (instead of just using a previous style). Come to think of it, it's probably because the pages weren't perfectly flat when they were scanned, and/or the author sparsely used a different character spacing for various lines (so that they fit on the page). Hmmm... So it may not be FineReader's fault after all, for all these "ghost" styles... However, there is a way to export to plain .txt without losing all the bold, italics and any other formatting you'd like, which would essentially eliminate all the styles. Check out this thread: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=153764 Last edited by DSpider; 12-07-2011 at 08:17 AM.