Hi John and everyone who helped, I have taken Richard up on his offer. For the PDF's which are closely spaced, Kurzweil 1000 can convert it quickly to rich text and it is a good job. K1000 also converts the images as well, but it is the size of this file. At over 60 Meg, it is a brute to process. I am running a Quad core 3.8 Ghz, running Win 7, with 4 Gig of Ram, but it will not work with it at all. Many thanks again, Happy New Year to all as well!! Mike _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 16:42 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Hi Mike, OK Mike, hopefully Richard can convert for you if you wish to take him up on his offer. I know what you mean about pdf files being too closely spaced and JAWS reading it as one line - what a pain and takes hours to sort out. Cheers. John. _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Moore Sent: 03 January 2012 16:26 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion John, I usually use Kurzweil to convert Pdf's. It will work on files up to about 3 Meg, but bigger files it will not handle. It is good at converting, and even text files, which are too closely spaced, where JFW reads the line as one word, it successfully converts into rich text. Scanning is an option, but at that size, I don't know how many pages long it must be. Regards, Mike _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 11:21 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Hi Mike, If the file has been scanned as an image, then I don't know of anything that will actually convert it. JAWS 13 will read the first page of a scanned image, but it cannot be saved and converted and you would need to scan each page and read it - quite a labour intensive process. The only option I can think of is to print the pages and scan in as an accessible document rather than an image. Cheers. John. _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike Moore Sent: 02 January 2012 23:53 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Pdf conversion Hello, I have a Pdf file, a book, and it is as an image scan, or viewed as a blank document by JFW. I need to convert it, but Kurzweil will not handle a document of its size, 62000 Kb. Any suggestions please? Kindest, Mike