I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.

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Golf

I scanned a document and can't control fomatting in Word.

It boxes paragraphs, can't control justification
 
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Charles Kenyon

Unless you run a scanned image through special optical character recognition
software, all you have is a picture of text, not text. You can manipulate it
the same way you can other pictures, but you can't cut the picture apart
(the individual letters and words in the picture) and change their
relationship to each other.

Long way of saying you need to use the OCR software that came with your
scanner or that built into later editions of Word.
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Anne Troy

Yeah, some OCR scanning just isn't that great. The best you can do is get
everything out of the text boxes first, and go from there.
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Graham Mayor

That's OCR software for you - it tends to create a dog's breakfast of
formatting. Some applications are much worse than others. Microsoft's Office
Document Imaging will kill all the formatting and produce just the text, or
you could scan to plain text and reformat in Word - or you could buy better
OCR software. It doesn't get any better than Finereader - but even that
isn't perfect.

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