Thanks Yuri, the thread you provided was very interesting. However, I decided to buy a component called iSedQuickPdf from SedTech. This component allows to read and extract text and other contents from a pdf file.
>Depending on the application you could use the shell sendkeys to get the text from PDF >file and then convert the text appropriately in the foxpro code. Thread #
852282 may >help.
Carlos A. Granitto