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How to get rid of junk OCR character leftover in Word
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Susan Welsh
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Apr 16, 2013

I have converted a PDF to Word using ABBYY Finereader, and wherever there was a hyphen at a line ending, the Word version has put it a junk character than I cannot search and replace to get rid of. It looks like a horizontal line with a short vertical line hanging down from the back of it -- like an L rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I have copied it into my Find field, but Word can't find it.

There are hundreds of these things in this rather long document, and I would really like to ... See more
I have converted a PDF to Word using ABBYY Finereader, and wherever there was a hyphen at a line ending, the Word version has put it a junk character than I cannot search and replace to get rid of. It looks like a horizontal line with a short vertical line hanging down from the back of it -- like an L rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I have copied it into my Find field, but Word can't find it.

There are hundreds of these things in this rather long document, and I would really like to get a clean text to make translating easier.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance! ▲ Collapse
 
Kevin Fulton
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Look under special characters Apr 16, 2013

If I recall correctly, this is for the optional hyphen ^-.
 
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Optional hyphens can be replaced in Word Apr 16, 2013

Hi, Susan.

Please see my blog article on how to replace these "optional hyphens".
http://pinsonlingo.com/blog/2011/05/27/tag-char-namesoftbreakhyphen-removed/.
 
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Easy! Apr 16, 2013

This is very common in multi-column articles.
Open Word's Find&Replace dialog.
Under Find, click the button "More >>"
Place the cursor in the Find box, and from the Special drop-down menu select "optional hyphen".
Leave the Replace box blank.
Replace All.


That's it.
 
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Better take care of it in FR Apr 16, 2013

In FineReader, go to Tools → Options → 4. Save → Format Settings → RTF/DOC/Word XML and tick Remove Optional Hyphens and re-export your document.

[Edited at 2013-04-16 07:57 GMT]
 
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Thanks! Apr 16, 2013

I used Rudolf's solution, and it worked like a charm. (I didn't want to go back to FR, because I had already done some formatting work on the Word file, like moving footnotes around.)

Thanks to all.
 


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