Barbara: As others have said, these are almost certainly scanned .pdf images rather than original .pdf files. Thanks to information on this list some couple of years ago I bought Abbyy Fine Reader. With this program, it is possible to OCR the unopened .pdf file. I cannot recall how much it cost, but was less than £100. David -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 913 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq