This is fairly basic Windoze stuff. You need to learn more about OLE (see later paragraph here) Ok, get the document showing in Adobe. Select ALL of the document by pressing the special key combination Start Word (or whatever you use, even Wordpad) Paste the selected text into Word by pressing the special key combination Save your text file Close Adobe and Word About OLE Micro$oft designed their system specially to do this kind of thing. And they provided at least 3 ways to accomplish each task, for instance copying - The dumb way - Use the mouse to select a block of text (etc) Use the mouse to select the edit menu Use the mouse to select the command Copy The slightly smarter way - Use the mouse to select a block of text (etc) Use the mouse to select the Copy to Clipboard button The smarter way - Use the mouse to select a block of text (etc) Press the special key combination Why is the smarter way best? Well a mouse selection with the right hand followed immediately by a quick touch of two keys (together) with the left hand is almost instantaneous compared to - moving the mouse a long way across the screen, slowing, then stopping over a smallish target, then clicking a mouse button, then returning the mouse to the area you were working in. So learn the smart ways that are built into Windoze products. (Hint, start Word, click on Help, Contents and Index, Index. Type in sel, then click on Selecting text and graphics. Look at the 4 pages - better yet; copy the 4 pages to a document and print them out as a reference) Bye. -----Original Message----- From: Wing Kent Kwan [SMTP:gzkwan@PUBLIC.GUANGZHOU.GD.CN] Sent: Monday, 23 November 1998 1:03 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: Can your's help me to copy a .PDF file to a TEXT file? Hi. Thank you! But It's only can copy page by page,If I have more than 1000 pages, it's very hard to do!,can you tell me how can I change the entire PDF file to a text file???? Edson Brusque wrote: > Hello kwan, > > In Adobe's Acrobat Reader 4.XX, just select the text you wants (you > will > have to click on the Text Select Tool Icon or press [V]) with the > mouse, > than press Ctrl-C to copy to the clipboard. > > Regards, > > Brusque > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Wing Kent Kwan > > To: > > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 1998 8:19 AM > Subject: Can your's help me to copy a .PDF file to a TEXT file? > > > Hi. > > Can your's help me to copy a .PDF file to a TEXT file? > >