How to make scanned text editable in Pages?

My scanner (Canon 9000F) will convert a document to an rtf file but when I drag it to Pages the text layout fragments into an unusable mess. Is there OCR software that works easily and well with Pages? Any other suggestions? Basically I want to scan documents, import into Pages, keep the text layout and be able to edit the text. Thanks!!

Probably your scanner's OCR is adding spaces and returns in odd places, at the ends of lines in the original for example.
It is not Pages that is messing with the text, it is the text that is a mess. You need to clean it up.
There is software to do this such as TextSoap.
Depending if there is a pattern to what the OCR has done you can also fix it by doing a series of Search and Replaces for for example multiple returns, spaces and tabs. There is also a procedure for fixing linebreak errors as well, but you have to look at what is in the text to work out how to fix it.
To see what is going on Menu > View > Show Invisibles
Peter

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