>>>>>I cannot tell what is the "best" as it depends on how the text is displayed/incorporated into the PDF document, and what kind of fonts are used.
>>>>>Also it depends on what kind of application you are going to do (for in_office use, for your own, for distribution, etc).
>>>>>
>>>>>Anyway, try pdftotext: http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php.
>>>>
>>>>Have you personally tried this product? I tried running the file and nothing happened, which scared me a little bit.
>>>>
>>>>>There were posts here explaining how to get the PDF document window handler, and how to send keystrokes to the window. In some cases you could use it too.
>>>>
>>>>Is this one (from you) one of the ones you mean? Sounds doable. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Alex
>>>
>>>We're using both products (PDFToText and TextToPDF). Remind me tomorrow about code snippet. I just closed my VPN connection...
>>
>>Thank you, especially about code snippet.
>
>Here is from my colleague's code:

>LOCAL lcPDFName,lctxtName, lcCommandText
>		lcPDFName = tcPDFName
>		lctxtName = STRTRAN(UPPER(lcPDFName),".PDF",".TXT")
>	    IF FILE(lctxtName)
>		     ERASE (lctxtName)
>		ENDIF
>		lcCommandText = ADDBS(ALLTRIM(c_system_parameters_list.clocation_client_notes)) + "PDF2TXT.EXE -a -q -c ##PDFFILE## ##TXTFILE##"
>		lcCommandText = STRTRAN(lcCommandText,"##TXTFILE##",lctxtName)
>		lcCommandText = STRTRAN(lcCommandText,"##PDFFILE##",lcPDFName)
>*--		lcCommandText = "S:\PDFView\PDF2TXT.EXE -a -q -c S:\PDFView\04111067c.pdf S:\PDFView\04111067c.txt"
>		RunShellScript(lcCommandText)
>		=MMSleep(200) 	

>>

Thank you very much Naomi.

Alex