Harley wrote:

Sorry to be so late with this, Paul...

I realize that you've probably already come to a decision about the OCR
conversion of some of your scans, but I just discovered the same problem
here when I scanned a document and wound up with the text in a bunch of
boxes in Word.

I realized then that I had the OCR program set to save it as an .rtf
file (formatted file type)...I changed that to .txt, and it converted
fine without the boxes.

So, it may simply be a matter of setting your OCR program to save the
results as .txt instead of whatever it is set to now.

Or, it might not...depending on what program you are using. Mine came
with my Epson scanner and did a very decent job.

Harley



My Read Iris Pro OCR prog. does not like the  column's for plain text.

Dan has the original  file and is doing an excellent job.
What kind of OCR are you using Dan?

Here  is the original file.

Paul...

I printed page 2 directly from the pdf file, then ran the printed page through the scanner's OCR and came up with the following file...this is just page 2. Took less than a couple of minutes.

If you need someone to help, and if this is satisfactory to you, I'll be glad to do so. Now that I have it in text format, we can adjust font size, type, etc., if necessary.
 
Harley

That is about what I am getting. Dan must have better tools than both of us
as his is higher quality. Sorry Harley but thanks anyway.

Here is Dan's page two in doc format. We will be replacing the picture with a hi rez
version from the book it was published in originally. Same goes for all the equations
and other illustrations.