At 11:05 AM 6/28/04 -0700, John Wilson wrote: <snipped>

. . . However, my OCR software, ABBYY, is coughing and choking over some of the "artsy" pages. Somebody decided to print the text *over* faint fractal backgrounds, and the software has trouble resolving these "unknown characters"!. . .

John: Welcome to the frustration group. Similar problems are very familiar in my line of work. If you can work out ways to speedily solve such unexpected and frustrating problems, you might find yourself half-way to becoming a graphic designer like I am. It's this kind of stuff that keeps putting me behind. Jim M.