PDF to TXT uses the best free OCR currently available (Google Tesseract), but there are better commercial options for doing OCR on a PDF, including Omnipage. Jamal On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, programming wrote: > Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:41:41 -0500 > From: programming <rproglock@xxxxxxx> > Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: another pdf to text problem > > Hi list, > > When I open the listed pdf file into PDF-TO -TEXT, I get the following > message: > > " > Cannot convert August 2008 Beacon.pdf > > File name=C:\PDF2TXT\PDF\August 2008 Beacon.pdf > > File size=1945487 > > Author=Panasonic Communications Co.,LTD. > > Title=Network Scan Data > > Subject=MFP Image Format > > Creator=HPDFlib > > Producer=HPDFlib 1.01(MFP) > > PDF version=1.2 > > Page count=15 > > Number of form fields=0 > > User Password=No > > Master Password=No > > Printing=Fully Allowed > > Changing the Document=Allowed > > Content Copying or Extraction=Allowed > > Authoring Comments and Form Fields=Allowed > > Form Field Fill-in or Signing=Allowed > > Content Accessibility Enabled=Allowed > > Document Assembly=Allowed > > Encryption Level=Blank" > > > > > Is there any way to read this pdf file? > > Jamel, would it be OK for me to send you the file so you can work with it? If > so, what is your email address? > > > Thanks for any help you can give me as the file is one of my churches > newsletters. > > Bob __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind