Thank you for the suggestion. I tried it and it definitely did not work. A .tiff document is a picture just the same as one that I get when I take a picture with my digital camera. There is no text involved. The text I'm looking for results from using an Optical Character Reader (OCR) that has been programmed to interpret an image into text. As I mentioned above, I had a stand alone OCR before OS X, but I don't have one now. I still believe that there is one somewhere on my current machine, but it has been so long since I used it that I can't remember where it is located. Spotlight doesn't help, so I'm wondering if it has disappeared with an application that I have discontinued.


Mac Pro dual Quad-Core Intel Xeons Early 2008; 16GB RAM; MacOS X 10.11.6, iOS 9.3.5