Curves back to text

Hi everyone, maybe my question sounds kind of stupid :)

I have the following problem: about 15 days ago I -absently- exploded all the text in the most challenging drawing I have ever realized... then I kept adding new text every day until now... and now I have to change almost all the text I did type but... it's made of curves!

So I was wondering if anyone has ever had similar problems solved by a gh definition

In case no-one has ever had similar troubles (I think you all here are smarter than me :P) how would you proceed to create a similar definition, given all the text has same dimension and font?

I would:

a) create a set with all the possible character-curve in that Font
b) create an identical set with the same characters as type 

c) compare this set with every given text-curve in the drawing (issue: the number 8 is made of 3 different curve .___. same as letter B... A has 2, as D, R, O, P, p and so on...)

d) list item from set 'b' using pattern I get from 'c'

e) evenctually -this is a moonshot in the moonshot- concatenate characters at 'd' based on proximity of different character-curves (to get "ABC" as a whole text, instead of "A" "B" and "C" as separate instances)

It sounds kind of challenging!

...maybe I'm better start re-writing text NOW as it could EASILY take me a couple of days to get things done... :)

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    David Rutten

    Yeah that'll be quite a project. I think you'll be done quickest if you do it manually.
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      martyn hogg

      Can't you just highlight all the curves and click the join command in Rhino?

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        Ale Inno

        ...slowly getting closer :)

        now it's time to look for proximity-rules to somehow join text together