Question
How to remove highlighted symbols from the file in Microsoft Word?
Answer
There are 2 possible ways to remove highlighted text in the resulting MS Word file:
- Using the Shading option: select the text and then apply Shading > No Color to it.
- Using the Clear all formatting option: select the text and apply the Clear all formatting option to it.
Note: This will remove all formatting from the text: the font type, italics, bold, etc.
To disable the highlighting of low-confidence characters option in FineReader PDF settings, please follow the next steps:
- Go to File > Options... > Format Settings > DOC/RTF/ODT.
- Disable the Highlight low-confidence characters option:
- Click OK.
In this case the highlighted symbols will still be seen on the right Text pane of the OCR Editor but not in the exported file.
Comments
3 comments
Klara Rihakova
Hello,
I am writing regarding some issues with highlighting uncertainly recognized or low-confidence characters.
When opened as MS Word document, the low-confidence charachters are coloured. However, as you mentioned in the article, the colour is part of a style (as shading), not a highlight (on the contrary, the FineReader 14 exported the colour as highlight). Therefore, the coloured characters are removed when I formate the text using macros (or "clear formatting") in MS Word. I would like to ask if there is a way to set up FineReader 15 to export the low-confidence characters as highlight, and not a shading? I am curious about this because I need the colour to stay in the text after formatting (for other work purposes).
Thank you for your response in advance!
Victoria Dvornikova
Hi Klara,
Unfortunately, it is not possible to change the current behavior in the product, but I will forward your request to our R&D team.
Klara Rihakova
Brilliant, thank you!
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