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When I copy text from a pdf to a Word document it of course has a hard return at the end of each line and all free converter programs I have found wither do this too or use text boxes. Both of these methods present problems with CAT tools. Is there any easy way to remove all those irritating returns?
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Tony M France Local time: 14:24 Member French to English + ...
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Remove hard returns (in general)
Apr 12, 2010
I've encountered the same problem under other circumstances.
What I do is this, using search-&-replace under Word:
To preserve genuine paragraph breaks, I first search for double paragraph breaks ^p^p and replace those with some other character like § for example that doesn't occur anywhere else in your text.
Then I replace all the remaining single paragraph breaks ^p with spaces.
And finally, I go back and replace the § with a single ... See more
I've encountered the same problem under other circumstances.
What I do is this, using search-&-replace under Word:
To preserve genuine paragraph breaks, I first search for double paragraph breaks ^p^p and replace those with some other character like § for example that doesn't occur anywhere else in your text.
Then I replace all the remaining single paragraph breaks ^p with spaces.
And finally, I go back and replace the § with a single proper paragraph break ^p
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Sergei Leshchinsky Ukraine Local time: 15:24 Member (2008) English to Russian + ...
my way
Apr 12, 2010
1) Replace double spaces with single spaces. It takes several cycles.
2) Replace ^p with a space. It may take several cycles.
3) Replace double space with a ^p
4) Replace ^L with space.
Done.
(It always works in the ideal worlds ... some things might happen... act accordingly and use logic.)
Sometimes, you need to...
5) Replace double spaces with single spaces again.
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Pablo Bouvier Local time: 14:24 German to Spanish + ...
Remove hard returns in pdf to word doc
Apr 12, 2010
Sonja Marks wrote:
When I copy text from a pdf to a Word document it of course has a hard return at the end of each line and all free converter programs I have found wither do this too or use text boxes. Both of these methods present problems with CAT tools. Is there any easy way to remove all those irritating returns?
To all - these are really useful tips, so thank you!
K
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Pablo Bouvier Local time: 14:24 German to Spanish + ...
Remove hard returns in pdf to word doc
Apr 13, 2010
Katherine Mérignac wrote:
To all - these are really useful tips, so thank you!
K
It was a pleasure, Katherine. Since I published te shared link to the codezapper template from Dave Turner it has been downloaded more than 25 times. I am proud to belong to such well educated community. Thank you all.
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