Hi Vincent, Another thought, Can you load it into Kurtzweil as an image. Kur will convert it and read it out. Aedan. -----Original Message----- From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vincent stack Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:19 PM To: vip students Subject: [vip_students] adobe question hello again i have a 375 page pdf book. i am trying to open it and it is telling me "alert blank document". i have sighted assistance that is telling me that the document is there with text on it. i have also tried to do a save as text and that is not working. does anyone know what i need to do to save this as a text document please. many thanks. regards Vincent Vincent