Hi Trace. You can save a pdf file to a text file from within Adobe Reader. If the PDF contains text, select the file menu then save as text. If the PDF only contains images however, you'll need to put it through an OCR application such as OmniPage, Fine Reader or one of the accessible programs like OpenBook or Kurzweil. All the best, Ibrahim. ----- Original Message ----- From: Spring.flower To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:03 PM Subject: [access-uk] converting pdf to text files Hi I think the subject matter is possible but I've never needed to worry about it before now, now I'd love to know how its done. Please help Any and all help welcome Trace