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GREP to join up split sentences?

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    • September 24, 2019 at 6:07 am #1187382
      Simon Hartshorne
      Member

      Hi all,

      I have a document that has been ORC scanned then converted to a word doc from Acrobat. But unfortunately there are paragraph returns mid sentences preventing the text flowing.

      Is there a GREP that can locate sentences beginning with a lowercase letter and remove the paragraph return behind it?

      I really HOPE so!

      Thanks
      Simon

    • September 24, 2019 at 8:11 am #14324076
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Hey Simon,

      You should be able to run something like

      Find: \r([a-z])
      Replace: $1

      but you might want to run this first to make sure you have a space before those line breaks. Nothing like having to reread the whole thing because words are running together (among other things), and it’s easier to clean up double spaces throughout than break words apart.

      Find: (?<!)\r
      Replace: $0

      Aaron

    • September 24, 2019 at 8:44 am #14324075
      Simon Hartshorne
      Member

      Thanks so much Aaron. That worked on some of the text but not all… I’m not sure why either because they all have the same paragraph breaks…

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