Hi, Thanks for the help in getting the pdf file converted. Your advice worked. However, when the conversion was completed, the txt file was not right. Anyway, thanks for the help. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: InthaneElf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:33 PM Subject: Re: another pdf to text problem ah, then you might wish to hit f11 to get the latest copy of PDF2TXT, and it will be in the main window, just tab across it and there will be a check box which says "image format" check it and run the translation, if it can handle it it will, but keep in mind that this is going to be a slow process, if it sits there a while, let it sit, for 15 pages, I'd say wait an hour, if it has not finished off the work by then, and is not counting pages to you when you sit in the window for a while, then it choked on it, I have 4 scanned books here that it can't translate, there too big for it *sigh* of course there between 200 to 400 pages each so... you shouldn't have much trouble with your 15 page document, I was up to page 40 something when P2T froze on me both times I tried it with one of those books. good luck, inthane proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.com operator: Fruit Basket Demo Sight, where you can find a similar project done in several programming languages, along with its source code, so you can decide what language is right for you http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: programming To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:50 PM Subject: Re: another pdf to text problem Hi, Could you please tell me how to find the checkbox where I set to OCR? This might be a stupid question but I can't find it. Thanks for your help. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: InthaneElf To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:44 PM Subject: Re: another pdf to text problem did you check the checkbox for using the OCR function in PDF2TXT? and then try scanning it, it sounds like this is the age old problem of a scanned image used to create the .PDF, instead of a text document, and will require OCR to read it if it's possible to do at all. inthane proprietor, The Grab Bag, for blind computer users and programmers http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises "own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!" www.alacorncomputer.com Owner: Agemtree "merchants in fine facetted and cabochon gemstones" www.agemtree.com operator: Fruit Basket Demo Sight, where you can find a similar project done in several programming languages, along with its source code, so you can decide what language is right for you http://fruitbasketdemo.alacorncomputer.com ----- Original Message ----- From: programming To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:41 PM 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