How do I get rid of text boxes and leave the text?

[FishScreener]

I am editing a document that was scanned and converted using ocr software.
Some of the text was brought in in text boxes.

I need to elimnate the text boxes and keep the text. I know that I can copy
the text and paste it outside the box.

But, is there a simpler way?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In a scanned document, there's a good chance the boxes are actually frames
rather than text boxes (if they have black square handles when selected,
they're frames). If so, you can very likely remove the frame by selecting
the text and pressing Ctrl+Q. If you Ctrl+A first, you'll remove all the
frames in the document. This can be risky, since the text will appear in the
order in which the frames were anchored to text paragraphs (which may not be
the order wanted).

If they're actually text boxes, you can convert them to frames and then
remove them the same way.

Or you can cut the text from each "box," paste it outside and delete the
text box or frame.