>Hi all,
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>I have a scanner that i use to put my docs into pdf files. These pdf are ocred. I wonder if it is possible to get the text or a part of the text via foxpro to a memo or a char field...

In most cases, if paper pages are scanned directly to PDFs, then they are really what I call "dumb" PDFs, in that they just contain a large image rather than text. If the intention is to try to extract the text, it's usually a good idea to skip the PDF creation step and OCR the original image file, say a JPG or TIFF, directly. Usually, the fewer the conversion steps, the better the result.

That said, the result of an OCR operation is a text file of some sort - could be as simple as a plain TXT file, or it might be structured like a Word DOC/DOCX. You often have a choice of output type.

If you can choose the output type, you could experiment with TXT, in which case a simple FILETOSTR() may be all you need to manipulate it in VFP. If it's a Word DOC you could experiment with Word automation.