As sure as eggs are eggs, the text is actually scanned, and
so appears as an image or picture.

You may simply be forced to print the document, scan it, and
OCR from there,

George.

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Subject: [VICUG-L] PDF-to-Text

Listers,
I know this topic has been dealt with repeatedly. Using
Acrobat 
reader version 8, I have a .pdf file which neither appears
to open 
though I get the converting document message; and though I
have the 
"convert to text option" after minutes and minutes the .txt
file 
shows up with 0 bytes. the PDF is a long file, over 3 meg.
Any ideas 
for getting it translated?
Answer offlist to spare everyone this duplication.
Thanks,
Judy Wilkinson


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