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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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