Thank you for a quick response.

I really just want plain text but HTML will do as I can I can strip the HTML markup out. I was hoping to stay away from system calls and external programs as much as possible. I am hoping that someone will be able to provide me with the key piece of information that I am missing. In the mean time, I will start coding a version that makes a system call to pdf2html.

And Ovid, you will notice that they are all backslashes... ;)