How to get rid of junk OCR character leftover in Word Thread poster: Susan Welsh
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Susan Welsh 
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I have converted a PDF to Word using ABBYY Finereader, and wherever there was a hyphen at a line ending, the Word version has put it a junk character than I cannot search and replace to get rid of. It looks like a horizontal line with a short vertical line hanging down from the back of it -- like an L rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I have copied it into my Find field, but Word can't find it.
There are hundreds of these things in this rather long document, and I would really like to ... See more I have converted a PDF to Word using ABBYY Finereader, and wherever there was a hyphen at a line ending, the Word version has put it a junk character than I cannot search and replace to get rid of. It looks like a horizontal line with a short vertical line hanging down from the back of it -- like an L rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I have copied it into my Find field, but Word can't find it.
There are hundreds of these things in this rather long document, and I would really like to get a clean text to make translating easier.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Kevin Fulton
United States
Local time: 03:11
German to English
| Look under special characters | Apr 16, 2013 |
If I recall correctly, this is for the optional hyphen ^-.
| | | | Sam Pinson
United States
Local time: 01:11
Member (2011)
Russian to English
| LEXpert
United States
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Croatian to English
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This is very common in multi-column articles.
Open Word's Find&Replace dialog.
Under Find, click the button "More >>"
Place the cursor in the Find box, and from the Special drop-down menu select "optional hyphen".
Leave the Replace box blank.
Replace All.
That's it.
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esperantisto
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SITE LOCALIZER | Better take care of it in FR | Apr 16, 2013 |
In FineReader, go to Tools → Options → 4. Save → Format Settings → RTF/DOC/Word XML and tick Remove Optional Hyphens and re-export your document.
[Edited at 2013-04-16 07:57 GMT]
| | | | Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 03:11
Russian to English
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I used Rudolf's solution, and it worked like a charm. (I didn't want to go back to FR, because I had already done some formatting work on the Word file, like moving footnotes around.)
Thanks to all.
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