I've been working on a very large document (around 3,000 pages), which was OCR'd using Adobe from scanned documents.

Occasionally there are some odd characters that get thrown in to the mix.

One of them can be seen in the attached image. I is like a large full stop that hovers off the base of the line it is on.



I tried copying it, pasting it into a Find/Replace box (Control-H) and replacing it with nothing, but when I do that it deletes every single letter 'o' in the document.

It isn't too much effort to manually delete them, but there are so many that a better way would be useful.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Attached Images

Screenshot with weird o.jpg (51.5 KB, 17 views)

That may be an artifact of the OCR process.


Can you extract a page with the problem in a separate document and attach that page here, as a document?
Attach a Sample File Demonstrating the Problem - Here's How

When you’re targetting a character like that with FnR you also need to specify the font used for that character.

I think I have now attached it to this document. Unfortunately my original was as an .RTF file, and that isn't an option for upload. I have converted it to .docx. That doesn't seem to make much difference.

You can see the issue with the floating giant full stop (I am sure that isn't what it is officially known as) down the bottom line next to the "F".

Attached Files

Large full stop error.docx (12.5 KB, 0 views)

I'm not 100 per cent sure the document in my last message did attach (at least I can't see it when I checked the thread).

Here it is attached again.

Attached Files

Large full stop error.docx (12.5 KB, 5 views)

Copy / Paste into the Replace dialog works for me without touching the letter o elsewhere.

Is it related to the RTF format when you were trying it?

I note the character is AscW(8226) so you could use that code to search for it.

__________________
Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks again Guessed. You are so helpful and I appreciate it.

When I try to do a find and replace by just copying it and replacing it, it only removes all the letter "o" in the document (and not the object I am trying to remove).

It doesn't seem to matter whether it is RTF or DOCX.

To use the AscW(8226) code do I just put that into the Find box and replace it with nothing, but use wildcards so it will search for the code, rather than the string of letters?

Just to make my last post clearer, I have the two attached screenshots showing what I was doing in the Find and Replace, and what it looked like afterwards.

Attached Images

	Screenshot with find and replacejpg.jpg (82.9 KB, 13 views)
	Screenshot with find and replace2.jpg (55.3 KB, 12 views)

Try Robert's suggestion first. It works on my machine.

I also tried opening your sample doc on a different machine and I tested an ascii value that also worked on my machine
Find ^0149

__________________
Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thank-you all so much. Robert's suggestion did indeed work. Yay!!

Feel free to ignore this post (or take it to Private Messages) if it is a personal one but...

What is your Azaria story Xavier? It seems like you've been kicking this can down the road for years and are still dealing with issues relating to fresh scans of big documents relating to this very sad story. Do you have an endless supply of docs still to process?

__________________
Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia