John Dowdell wrote: > I'm guessing you might be wanting to extract and manipulate data from > parts of a PDF file, but we readers can't tell whether you're limiting > yourself to simple brochureware documents, documents with simple forms, > documents with forms that have transferrable data, documents with a > server component, documents without reading permissions, etc. Hard to > point to useful resources in such a situation. > Indeed. I think the OP is going to have to use one of the pdf2ascii conversion scripts/softwares to read the document. I think that's what he's after here, but more info would help narrow this down some. These might help: http://www.phpclasses.org/browse.html/package/702.html http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdftohtml/ commercial: http://www.activepdf.com/