Oh, I just found a thread on UT that has an answer:

AcroExchAVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")

Tom



>Steve, or anyone else,
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> If you have been successful in learning how to automate PDF related procedures from within FoxPro, I would appreciate a little guidance or suggestions while I keep trying to research an approach.
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> Here's my challenge: To automate PDF to text conversion, so the app can take PDF files which are sent overnight from other sources, and convert them to text so that VFP can process the data into tables about 5 am., ready for the user when they arrive at work in the morning.
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> The app already exists. The users now have to spend an inordinate amount of time doing things manually. I'd like to save them all quite a bit of time. I have learned how to much of this in Word over the last ten months, but I'm getting confused about the Adobe/Acrobat approach.
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> Note: What I have so far uses the following line, which doesn't seem to be the answer.
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> loAcrobat = CreateObject('AcroExch.App')
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>Thanks, Tom
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>>Word is a good option for a lot of cases, but in this case I need Acrobat because this web portal I am working on is pdf-centric and anything I do in it is pretty much Acrobat-only.
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>>I just found Adobe's free Acrobat5 SDK, so maybe there's something easy-to-figure in there. Then I can be the first to use it and post some findings on the UT.
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