There are three packages I know and use for postscript/pdf conversion to text. Two of them have already been mentioned xpdf (pdf2text) and ps2ascii part of the ghostscript system. There is a third one which works quite nicely as well pstotext. In debian at least it is it's own package. Kirk -- Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario phone: (519) 661-3061