Re: Text file in two columns, how to seperate?

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

Omnipage can scan two-column format and save it without the columnar
formatting.

I don't know about other OCR software.


Frank

bobryan9@my-deja.com wrote in message <8kofje$c2o$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>I just spent alot of time scanning and OCR'ing some Nibble articles.
>Some of the scans are source code..
>
>The magazine had                  Here is the other
>the text in two                   column over here.
>columns like this
>
>For BASIC source, It doesn't matter which line is entered first, so I
>can just go through manually and add a bunch of CR's.
>
>For Assembly, it does matter which order the lines are entered.
>
>Is there a way to strip the second column out from the text file, and
>save it as it's own text file?  The above columns would end up as:
>
>File#1
>The magazine had
>the text in two
>columns like this
>
>File#2
>Here is the other
>column over here.
>
>Are there word processors for the Apple II that will do this?  I have a
>PC too, are there programs for the PC to strip out the second column?
>
>I haven't used the scan program very much.  I could have taken two
>scans, 1 for each column, but that takes twice as long  (there's
>probably a preference to set somewhere in the program, but I just
>scanned more than 200 pages)
>
>
>Bob
>
>
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