Try this link not tried this program, had good results from Nuance PDF Professional though on PDF files with a text layer and those scanned only. http://www.empowermentzone.com/pdf2ocr.zip ----- Original Message ----- From: Amro Bilal To: Access-UK Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 1:26 PM Subject: [access-uk] Copying chunks of a PDF document? Hi all, Someone is trying to copy parts of articles that are in PDF formats for me to place in a word document but without success. Some of them might be protected and others could be scanned articles. So, I'm looking for a program/programs that enable us from copying chunks of protected and scanned PDF documents. I want something reliable so I don't mind paying. Would Adobe reader do the job? And there was a talk recently on the list about a newly released OCR program for PDF scanned documents... I'm afraid I've lost those emails; would someone post that info again please? With many thanks for any help I may get. Amro