And you may be able to use a program such as ABBYY Fine Reader to accomplish this. Of course I would contact the ARRL and either ask for a refund since you cannot use the material or ask if they can offer you an alternative.
I wanted to purchase some of the ARRL books, but will not because I figured they would not be accessible.

On Aug 7, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> No, you're not necessarily out of luck.  If you have OpenBook, or Kurzweil, 
> you can recognize the pdf image by printing it to the Freedom Import, or 
> Kurzweil Virtual Printer,  respectively.
> 
> If you don't have those, you can converted a limited size file free by going 
> to
> http://www.onlineocr.net/
> 
> Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
> 
> Steve, K8SP
> Lansing, MI
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kent Plemmons" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:11 AM
> Subject: reading ARRL antenna book 22nd ed.
> 
> 
>> Hi all,
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>> After purchasing the ARRL Antenna Book, 22nd edition which indeed does
>> contain the text of most of the articles, I find that I cannot read the
>> text.  I use JAWS and these files are in PDF format.  When I access an
>> article the heading info reads great but it only includes, date created,
>> author etc.  The body of the article doesn't read at all.  After printing 
>> a
>> couple of the articles and getting someone to look at the printed pages, 
>> the
>> text is there.  I assume that although the ARRL said that the text of the
>> articles is included on cd, it seems that they didn't mention that there 
>> is
>> no embedded text in the PDF files.  Am I missing something that I need to
>> know in order to access the text or am I out of luck?
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>> 
>> Thanks to you all,
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>> 
>> 
>> Kent Plemmons
>> 
>> Not too far from Waynesville NC
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>> Kk4fff
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>> Skype kent.plemmons
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