BRØCKâQUÂNTIFIER.ORG wrote: [snip] > so now i'm back where i started, only just a bit smarter. so what else do > y'all use to pull text out of a pdf such as this one? Adobe Acrobat Capture; it's a long time since I used it, but there certainly was a time when a stripped-down version came bundled with Acrobat itself. Philip Taylor