> > 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.
 > > --
 > > Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
 >
 > The scan put certain artifacts into the page, mostly misspellings. Here
 > is the document with the spellings corrected, I did not know what a "5
 > speed spur Rear transmission" is, so I just left that. I know I was not
 > asked to do this, but I did it anyway, hoping to help.
 >
 > I used Microsoft Office Word 2003, SP3, if that makes any difference.
 >
 > Les Nordman :-)
 >
 > It was supposed to be spur gear transmission.
 >
 > Paul Lamar

Dear Paul:

I have attached draft 2 of page 2, now reading "spur gear
transmission".  :-)

Les Nordman :-)

Thanks Les.