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If a page at a time might work for you, perhaps there's an option here. I cannot personally speak for this software but it seems to be reasonably well regarded. Maybe someone else at FTM knows more.

This product has a full-blown version that costs 30 beans....but also has a free download whose caveat is that you can only do single pages.

Thanks, Ryck. I'll look at it when I pick my stand-alone OCR. I often have multi-page jobs when I do an OCR. I don't mind paying for the app.

I spent a lot of time browsing the App Store for OCR applications. After reading a huge number of comments from users, I finally decided to buy a $10.00 app named Text Extractor. I have been pleasantly surprised. It extracted the contents of the four page PDF containing a graphic image of text and presented it as extracted or converted text showing each of the four pages. I tested it by giving it a workout extracting a document that had three changes in font size and boldness and also had some text centered and some against the right margin and the rest against the left margin. I then took the option to download it to my desk top in .txt format. The placement of text against the right margin and also text that was centered was lost. Everything was against the left margin. After that, I placed it in Word and began to work with it. Word seemed to be resisting some of my attempts to arrange things, so I started over using Adobe InDesign which is my preferred app for producing finished documents. It enables stable arrangement on a page and leaves it there until I decide to change it. I also have the choice of making each page independent so stuff on page 2 doesn't slop over onto page 3 unless I want to put it there. So it was a big workout to put things back together, but it's done and I'm very happy with it. I was especially pleased by the low number of errors in the extracted text. For ten bucks, it is a great value, but there is a lot of effort required when the document is as complex as the one I tried it on. A simple document would not have been difficult. Thanks again for everyone's input on this project. My problem is solved and I'm grateful to you.