Thanks All, and especially Tex2002ans !!
I do appreciate you all taking the time to answer my query.....
I THINK the answer was Yes, AbbyyFinereader, and
possibly a few others are able to OCR the page images within a PDF WITHOUT disassembling the PDF first. If the PDF needs to be disassembled first, I better get someone to teach me how...
FineReader will definitely make onto my Xmas Wish List... In the mean time, I'll work the books that others have already done the heavy lifting on.
My area of concentration / preference are the PD books that a lot of the Homeschoolers use, McGuffey's, Ray's (if I can figure out how to make those math problems do what I want WHERE I want them to do it ), Primary Source Documents for History; Pleasure / Literature Reading for the younger bunch, and so forth.
some of the story chapter books require minor updating, but a lot more are excellent as they are for vocabulary building, as well as "just for fun."
While a lot of the Homeschool crowd are printing PDF's and binding at 5x8; usually it's because they don't have other options. I want to present them with another option -- most, if not all of that years' books ready to load onto a reader.
(When my kids were Homeschooling, they'd much rather have their books on the readers, than a half-size notebook or home-bound edition.)
Again, Thanks All
Kathy MamaDragon