Argh. I just saw my post and it was mangled with lots of newlines added by the piclist. I'll try again ... The output from pdftotext with the '-layout' option looked more like this: (Again, a monospace font is needed.) PIC16F627A/628A/648A Pin Diagrams PDIP, SOIC 1 18 RA2/AN2/VREF RA1/AN1 RA0/AN0 RA3/AN3/CMP1 17 2 27A/628A/648A PIC16F627A/628A/648A 16 RA4/T0CKI/CMP2 3 RA7/OSC1/CLKIN RA6/OSC2/CLKOUT 4 RA5/MCLR/VPP 15 5 VSS 14 VDD RB0/INT 6 RB7/T1OSI/PGD 13 12 RB1/RX/DT RB6/T1OSO/T1CKI/PGC 7 8 RB5 RB2/TX/CK 11 9 10 RB3/CCP1 RB4/PGM My point was that the layout option might help in the future for getting pinouts from other Microchip PDFs. -Chris --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .