c.  SPLIT PDF.  Use Adobe Acrobat to split the PDF file into a series
of TIFF image files.

 d.  CLEAN IMAGE FILES:  Use Photoshop or even Paint to erase all of
the marginal marks.  Adjust contrasts to clean image.  Save as a Black
and White bitmap file (I think.)

e.  OCR:  Use a OCR program (TextBridge, ABBYY, etc; is there any good
free software?) to convert the image files to text.  This outputs a
RTF file


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4.  PDF reduction

The PDF files are way too big.  I don't know why they are.

Any ideas on size reduction would be appreciated.

I looked at
http://www.planetpdf.com/creative/article.asp?ContentID=6112