if the pdf is a scanned image of image format, use something like open 
book to transcribe it. there's a few fowl ups but it's readable for the 
important bits.

Shaun,
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On 1/11/2008 8:39 PM, the old scribe known as Colin McDonald was able to 
impart this pearl of wisdom:
> the Adobe Reader is free from the adobe website.
> All you have to do is open the pdf document in adobe, go to the file menu
> and select save as text....it will automatically create a txt file of the
> contents.  This doesn't work if the original PDF is a scanned image or in
> image format like many of them are.
> You need an OCR program to convert those.
> is this what you are running into, a scanned image?
> Jaws will typically read most professionally written PDF documents to some
> extent.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 8:43 PM
> Subject: Manual or PDF Convert to txt for Icom 7000
> 
> 
>> If someone has the Icom 7000 instruction manual in plain text, could you
>> email me a copy?  If not, could someone convert the PDF version, which I
> can
>> email you, into plain text and send it back?  It is about 5 megs in PDF
>> format.
>>
>> Phil.
>> K0NX
>>
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