How do I get the OCR function to stop treating lines up colons as column dividers?

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I just want it to treat the scan as a simple text file. Just treat everything like a character and stop looking for lines or anything fancy. FYI, it’s 60 pages of VHDL code with lots of lined up colons, and the scan is all I have.  Is there any kind of fine-grained control over the OCR function?

AnandSri · Answer

Hello Justablueone,Sorry for the delayed response and inconvenience caused. As per the description above, you want to stop OCT to treat lines up colons as column dividers, Is that correct?Try running enhance scan first, and then run the OCR and see if this brings any difference.To know more about enhancing Scan, please refer to Adobe article Edit scanned PDFs, turn off automatic OCR, Adobe Acrobat Is it possible to share a sample/original PDF with us to that we can test it at our end? To share the file, please use Adobe Send feature, upload the file, share the link to files via private message only, How Do I Send  Private Message Let us know how it goes and share your findings.Regards,Anand Sri.

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