I've spent the last few days scanning an old novel into the computer. It is one that I had write back around 1998 and has been neglected since because the only copy left was a printout that I had taken along to edit when me and my parents went on a road trip that winter.
I've got it scanned in now, so will work on it every day to get it cleaned up and ready to be turned into a polished manuscript. First thing to do - clean up the SNAFUs left behind by the ORC software of the scanner. Stuff like capitol H's where there should be quote marks and 9's where there should be e's.
I'm hoping that I can get that all cleaned up fairly quickly by doing at least one scene per day, on some days I should be able to clean up at least a full chapter.
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Couldn't you use control H and clean the whole thing up with a few pushes of the button? I'm just asking.
I'm working on it in yWriter5, so I'm not sure... hadn't noticed the SNAFUs until after I had it all sorted into scenes in the program. Will look and see if that is an option for that program though. But later - massive headache at moment threatening me if I even think about opening the program before I get a bit of sleep.
Thanks fir the suggestion, scrambled as I am I could easily have totally spaced out the option. :-)
See, that's why I should not type with my eyes closed --- last comment: Thanks fir = Thanks for
THANK YOU :-D
yWriter5 does have Find/Replace, something I would not even have thought to look for in it had you not suggested it. :-) Thanks!
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