http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe PDF2TXT now uses an updated version of the QuickPDF library, which is commercially available at http://QuickPDF.com Several years worth of fixes and enhancements are incorporated in this library version compared to the previous one used. Although the source code to this and other tools used by PDF2TXT is not available, its own source code in the PowerBASIC language, PDF2TXT.bas, is now installed along with the executable. As before, the Image Format checkbox (Alt+F) is available for optical character recognition (OCR) -- using Google Tesseract technology -- on image-based PDFs that elude text extraction methods. Due to technical issues, there is not a simple way of aborting an OCR process that has already started. This is now possible, however, via a work-around of launching another copy of PDF2TXT. It clears the deck during its startup phase. The Quit button (Alt+Q) may then be invoked to close either copy of the program (though no harm results from both being loaded). As Before the Grab URL button (Alt+G) gets the address of the current web page in Internet Explorer and sets it as the PDF source. This now works with versions of Internet Explorer above 6.0. The feature makes it easy to download and convert all PDFs linked to a web page. An additional hotkey is introduced: F11 for Elevate Version (like the EdSharp and FileDir programs). This checks whether a newer version of PDF2TXT is available, and offers to install it. The command makes future updates to the program particularly convenient to obtain. As before, the Extra HTML checkbox (Alt+X) uses a different conversion technology to produce a .htm conversion in addition to the .txt one. To further increase conversion options via this checkbox, it now also causes another technology to be used for producing the .txt file, using the PDFToText.exe utility that is also seperately available at http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html Thus PDF2TXT now incorporates three different .txt conversion methods, a .htm method, and an OCR one -- all of which are possible in a batch mode that processes every PDF in a directory. The program has become the most capable, free converter of PDFs available on Windows! Jamal ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** guispeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq