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- From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect columns
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.093220.11058@cubetech.com>
- Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.
- References: <1992Aug15.211115.27923@pellns.alleg.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 09:32:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug15.211115.27923@pellns.alleg.edu> trimble@pell4l17.alleg.edu (Eric Trimble) writes:
- >I have a problems with Word Perfect.
- >
- >I've scanned several pages that were in 3-column format (like a newspaper)
- >using Scan-X and OCR'd them using OCR-Servant. The result is RTF files
- >that have the columns aligned using spaces. I'd like to be able to turn
- >this file into a WP file that has columns instead. I can import the RTF
- >into WP, but I can't figure out how to get WP to change the doc into
- >columns. I'm not sure it is possble, since WP takes tall text up to a HPg
- >and puts it into the first column, then all the rest up to a HPg in the
- >next column, etc and the files are columnized by using spaces, thus all
- >the info is on the same line. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >-Erik Trimble
- >trimble@alleg.edu
- >
- >PS - I know I could rescan all the pages, only scanning one column per
- >page per file, but I don't want to rescan ~50 pages.
-
- OCR a single column at a time (you dont have to re-scan), cat them all
- together and paste them into a WP doc. Then just turn the columns on.
-
-
- andrew
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