"Simon Williams" <*email*@*luddite.ca*> wrote in message 261044.YWNFABPB@news.telusplanet.net">news:261044.YWNFABPB@news.telusplanet.net... > Google can translate PDFs to HTML which is pretty easy to convert to > plain text. Hope that's useful... Not if the PDF is bitmap-based, like most scans are. -- White Flame (aka David Holz) http://www.white-flame.com/ (spamblock in effect)