[Solved] How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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[Solved] How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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I just OCRed a book and am doing corrections on the text.

There are lines that run the width of the page here and there that I cannot get rid of. How do I turn these off?
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Re: How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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Please attach a copy of your actual document rather than a screenshot, as a document contains a lot more information that can be analyzed.
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Re: How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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Thank you.

Two lines are shown at the end of the last page.
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Re: How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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Is the result of the OCR procedure this .rtf file? Or you have converted the original type to .rtf format?

There are gray lines in your .rtf document, when I open it in my LibreOffice 6.1.6, too.
The last (9-th) page is empty.

The greay lines maybe are section limits created automatically by the OCR program. It is a feature of the Microsoft documents.
I suggest you rto fully reformat the scanned document in the AOO/LO. import the text as Unformatted text.
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Re: How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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The lines at end of Page 8 and on page 9 are section boundaries. Section 1 starts "There was no occasion..." Section 2 and 3 are empty, following Section 1. To remove these (text wil be kept) use /Format /Sections, select each section name in turn and press the Remove button.

Don't work in RTF format; work in .ODT. If you must have .RTF, when the work is final in .ODT, Save As and select .RTF.
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Re: How to rid of light gray lines in text??

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Thank you everyone. Removing the sections worked. Going to save it as ODT file format also.
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The outer grey lines are non printing, and shown as aids to page layout; /View /Text boundaries turns these on or off.
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