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 ###################### 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