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Old 12-08-2011, 04:58 AM   #6
Karl Murks
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Originally Posted by DSpider View Post
Word didn't put the text in text boxes. FineReader did, when you exported as "Exact Copy".

FineReader's page formatting is pretty shitty for the most part. I've yet to see a single document I scanned where it produced good results. I suffered through too much trouble before finding out that saving to a file format that doesn't have these obnoxious textboxes is really the only way to get a decent document.

What I do most of the time is to save as HTML, then load the saved document in a text editor (Notepad++) and remove the stylesheet references by looking for all '<span class=' occurences and replacing them until none are left. I trust this method much more than relying on word processing software to keep a clean file and can be certain to be rid of all font changes FineReader inserts. After this process the only thing left will be italic, bold and similar effects.
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