What Office package does he have? In Office XP pro, at least, there is a programme called Microsoft Office Document Imaging. In this is a OCR, fine reader I think, that will do basic translations. Open the document in this programme, hit tool and the first menu item is the OCR. Barry H ----- Original Message ----- From: <chairman@xxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:10 AM Subject: [access-uk] Converting .jpg to .txt or .doc Greetings, a friend of mine has received documents from solicitors in .jpg format and needs urgently to access these. I understand he has tried to get them resent in a more accessible format without success. Of course under the disabilities Discrimination act, they ought to be in accessible format, his parents have received print versions. My friend has windowsXP (home) and **no** scanning software but when he opens the file up on his system, it opens in some photo program, can't remember if it's PhotoEditor or PhotoShop and it's now too late for me to ring and ask him. anyway, in that program there is a print facility which allows printing to a named printer, so what I thought I could do is after this weekend, visit him bearing K1000 v9.0 and load onto his machine, updating to v9.2. I ought then to be able to send the print to the virtual Kiesie printer, thence through K1000 to a format supported by it and his system. I was wondering, though, to save me travelling up to birmingham (I am on the south coast of the UK), does anybody know of a **free** program which would achieve his objective? My friend has also received files from a solicitor, again fairly urgently in need of attention, in .wpd format. Neither of us know what program this expects to open. Again, please advise if it's a standard program such as MS-Publisher or something and if so, which component? If not, any ideas where we can go to find out what program it expects to use? Note: I am copying this to my friend whose address is in the 'bcc' field of my email client so any replies I will forward to him. Thanks in advance. All the best from: Colin R. Howard. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq