Take existing drawings and find all "|" and replace with "1/4"

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Question:
We are changing the standard font from freehand.shx to simplex.shx in our office. The problem is, that there are a certain number of keyboard "symbols" in the freehand font _ | { \ } [ ] < > ~ ' ; that when typed in, make up a number of fractions, and a few other symbols. SOOO, when we use simplex, the fraction 1/4 converts to a | . (Kind of difficult to call out a conduit size as that...)

I have tried find and replace, and quickselect, etc. It will not read the 'symbol' properly. Any ideas of a way to take existing drawings and find all "|" and replace with "1/4".

I have attached the font we are converting from...