John, I think that Abbyy FineReader would do the image to text conversion, as it's an OCR programme. Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593 _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Gregory Sent: 03 January 2012 12:29 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Hi Richard, I don't think you will be able to convert an image into a Word document. For this to happen, even with the Pro version of Adobe Acrobat X - which I have - the file would need to be a text file. It will merely create an image file in the Word document. However, if you have some other means of doing this, then please accept my apologies. John. _____ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Godfrey-McKay Sent: 03 January 2012 11:58 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Pdf conversion Mike, If you send it to me off list at richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I should be able to convert it to Word. Richard Richard Godfrey-McKay Telephone: 01738-445 880 Mobile: 07791 452 593 _____ 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