Hi hawkeyefxr,

Most good scanning & OCR packages should be able to produce a textual output without producing PDF images as an intermediate step. Even when producing an OCR output from the PDF, your ABBYY OCR package probably has a setting to send the output to a text file. That should be enough to resolve the issue.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]