I think, but I can't swear on a stack of bibles, that Text Cloner Pro 
does what you want. I had the OCR software a few computers ago, and I 
remember there being an option for scanning and retaining tables. I know 
I used it, but I don't remember how accurate it was. Most likely it was 
one of those mileage-may-vary outcomes; otherwise, I'd remember thinking 
it was really great or really unreliable.


Another thing you could try is scanning the table with your OCR program 
set to not recognize tables. Then after you save the file as a Word 
document, you can manually tidy up the information, making sure each 
line of text is a row and putting a tab, comma, or semicolon after each 
column's worth of info. For example:


J. S. Bach; 15 Inventions; harpsichord


F. Chopin; Nocturnes for the Night; Piano


Once you've tidied up the information, you can use Word to turn those 
lines into a table. To do that, do the following:


1. Highlight the information.


2. Go into the Insert tab, and press enter on the Table option.


3. In the Table menu, tab to and press enter on Convert Text to Table.


4. Next tab through that dialog, providing information. It asks how many 
columns; whether you used a tab, comma, or something else; and maybe one 
other thing. Remember to press enter on OK when you're done.

On 3/20/2021 10:51 AM, Albert wrote:
> In Openbook 9 I found in the Settings Menu the ability to alter the Visual settings to Exact View.  Try rummaging around in there to see how it impacts your results.
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> Thx, Albert
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> Hi All,
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> My friend has a 4-page CD list of tracks. This printed list is set in a nice, neat  tabular format, with columns headed something like, bin, cd, track, title, artist
>
> When we scan this with whatever scanner is available, we get all of column 1 followed by all of column 2, then all of column 3, you get the picture.  Simply put we do Not Get The Picture we want
>
> row1 consisting of columns 1, 2 3 info,
> Row 2, with columns 1, 2 3, etc.
>
> Is there a solution for this?
>
> I have heard of setting nondecolumnized mode in something like OpenBook, but that rarely ever worked past a certain date and time; I mean, it used to work very long ago, but, alas, not anymore.
>
> So,
> 1, is there something which we can tell the scanner app or hardware?
>
> and or,
> 2, Is there perhaps some post scanning smart text editor which can undo the damage and reformat the text properly?
>
> Help appreciated.
>
> John Sanfilippo
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