JOF,
I Googled "XPS Document Writer", and the most popular downloads seem to be those for the XPS Document Writer Removal Tool !!!
Nuff said, maybe?
SD,
Thanks for the link to Omnipage 14, I couldn't find it. Since mine's a one-off job I'll still try for a freebie first, but otherwise that's a reasonable price. Omnipage is known well enough.
cdtaylor_nats
I looked at FreeOCR, but when you click "Download" you get an announcement of a new version, but no way to download it yet.
hellsbrink
A-PDF states specifically that it does not convert text-as-images PDF files.
Any other offers?
BTW, the "target" is no secret...
The BEA Habsheim report in French
Warning, it's about 38Mb.
So if anybody can turn it into .DOC, .RTF, .TXT, or whatever.. yes please (even if the formatting gets lost and it's not faultless; it's meant to be used as a raw base for a translation).
CJ