Newbie with a question

[chrisgallagher01]

I am have scanned some parts of a book that was typewritten in 1975. I
have copied the text from Adobe to Word, but there are spaces in
between all the text that needs to be fixed.

i.e. A l l o f t he t e x t l o o ks l i ke this.

Is there a way to solve this problem without having to delete all the
extra spaces manually.

Thanks

 

[Mendel Leisk]

I am have scanned some parts of a book that was typewritten in 1975. I
have copied the text from Adobe to Word, but there are spaces in
between all the text that needs to be fixed.

i.e. A l l o f t he t e x t l o o ks l i ke this.

Is there a way to solve this problem without having to delete all the
extra spaces manually.

Thanks

A lot of text editors (Textpad for one) will allow you to replace
"space space" with "space" globally.

Also, you should clarify what you mean by "Adobe".

 

[jeremy]

I am have scanned some parts of a book that was typewritten in 1975. I
have copied the text from Adobe to Word, but there are spaces in
between all the text that needs to be fixed.

i.e. A l l o f t he t e x t l o o ks l i ke this.

Is there a way to solve this problem without having to delete all the
extra spaces manually.

Thanks

You must have used Optical Character Recognition software to convert the
image to text. OCR can fail for a number of reasons, but the ones that
usually come to mind are failing to scan at high-enough resolution and
failure to scan perfectly flat. If you opened the book and laid it
face-down on the scanner glass, the sentences may have appeared to be curled
up toward the edges of the pages that faced the center binding.

You may have to re-scan. Try scanning some flat sheets of printed paper
first, and be sure you are scanning at 300 dpi or greater, and see how that
turns out. Once you have the procedure perfected, then try re-scanning a
few pages of the book and see how that turns out.