Gil Weber wrote:
FX, perhaps this is a silly question, but in doing it as you recommend is it possible to preserve any of the .pdf formatting? I tried this with a bank statement and the result was a long OpenOffice document with everything jammed against the left margin. All of the columns of numbers that displayed so nicely in the .pdf were dismembered.
The resulting text document was unusable.
You don't preserve all of the formatting, but to say that it is unusable is certainly an exaggeration. I have just tried it on an official examination paper questionnaire, and you lose the graphic at the beginning of the paper and you'd have to add line seaparators and tabs, but it is certainly usable to me. By the way, Maura's original request was "txt - ascii" I have then tried Graham's suggestion of using Kword to open the pdf, and I must concede defeat :-) : kword keeps most of the formatting. the only problem was that the original graphic was turned upside down, which can be easily fixed. fx