Emailing (scanned or whatever) PDFs is the new fax. Most PDF reader programs will let you copy text/images from PDFs, to paste elsewhere. Kpdf under linux is g

Emailing (scanned or whatever) PDFs is the new fax. Most PDF reader programs will let you copy text/images from PDFs, to paste elsewhere. Kpdf under linux is good, but even Acroread will do something for you. For MS-windows, I like PDFcreator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ ), a print-to-PDF program. Note that many web pages have less extraneous stuff in the print view. P.S. I believe that Gimp already reads in PDFs, and I'm not sure if OpenOffice wasn't supposed to also do that in some (upcoming?) version. P.P.S. There's at least an OpenOffice 'PDF import extension'. This seems the latest/most-official: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport