Hi Katrina: When you go into the PDF document and you get the message for an empty document: 1. Hold down the control key and press P to go to the print menu. 2. If you've got Open Book, arrow up until you come to something called the Freedom Import Printer and press enter. You'll hear Open Book start up, then it will do recognition on the PDF just as if it were scanning and then recognizing a printed document. I won't vouch for how good a job it will do, but that is one way to read these PDFs that are scanned as images. If you need help, call me. Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician Adaptive Technology Center Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired 1850 W. Roosevelt Road Chicago, IL 60608 312-997-3651 (Voice/Relay) or 888-825-0080 (voice/Relay) ray.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx AIM Screen Name: tclhelp -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ Scripting mailing list: http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx