Hi Simon, If a PDF contains a scanned image of print, then almost your only alternative is to print it, and scan it yourself with an OCR package. George. ________________________________ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of goshawk Sent: 07 January 2006 20:21 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx; VICUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] pdf scanned document problems. hello list, am having a problem with some pdf files. the problem is that they appear to contain scanned documents, and I can't read them in the standard way, does anyone know how I can read them, or convert them in to a readable format? Simon