Hi Edward, Thanks for your reply, your probably right about the text in the document being picture based. However, i don't have any ocr software at hand to see if that would convert it, so because it's not a critical document, i'll throw it in the re-cycle bin. Jim. ----- Original Message ----- From: Edward Green To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 7:41 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: Problem with a pdf file. Hi Jim, Could it be a scanned image of a document containing text? If so, you could try putting it through an OCR engine if you have one. Ed From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of jim Sent: 05 June 2009 19:28 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Problem with a pdf file. Hello listers, Vista and jaws 9. I have a downloaded pdf file that when adobe reader 8 finishes converting, will not open and I get the message empty document, although I'm sure there's text on the page which it says it as converted page 1 of 25. Can anyone help me to get this pdf file to open and try to explain why it's saying empty document. Thanks. Jim. __________ NOD32 4134 (20090605) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com