Hi Bruce,

Actually, the free Acrobat Reader provides the tool you need. I use it 
all the time on PDF documents that manufacturers routinely provide for 
their products these days. Open a PDF document. Click on the T in the 
middle of the Menu Bar - I believe you have to hold down on it - and 
select one of the Text options that pop up. Exactly how it works seems 
to vary from document to document, depending on how it was created. 
After the text is selected, use the Edit Menu copy item to copy it to 
the clipboard. Then paste it into something like AppleWorks. I'd stay 
away from MS Word. I hate the way it scrolls vertically. YUK! If you 
have any problems  doing this, let me know. It is possible that content 
created with a scanner won't work, however, since it may be in there as 
a picture and not as text, but you've probably already tried all of 
this, which is the reason for your inquiry.

Joe Wilkins

BrucesFB3@... wrote:

>Scott,
>
>Thanks to you and Frank for making these documents available.
>Even though some of the material is dated, it will still be a
>helpful programming tool for many.
>
>Unfortunately the .pdf files were probably created using a
>scanner, which means you can't copy the examples and go
>directly to an FB file. Unfortunately you can't even do an
>image copy to achieve this end, which would provide some
>help in getting code to FB.
>
>Is there any way around this limitation? Perhaps an image
>grabbing 3rd party utility. Maybe Grab?
>
>Bruce Gottshall
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