In case anyone sees this string I thought of a way around this. Use the code
results = ocr(myimage, 'CharacterSet', '"and"');
Then just look throught the results.Words sting for the word "and" so you get out a string that only has what the ocr program recognized as the word "and". Then do
results.WordConfidence('newWordList') > significance_value & strcmp(results.Words,'and');
and this should give you all the instances of the word "and"