Okay, I'm going to try to read up on what's going on a little more. I understood what people were trying to tell me, but I was trying to get across the fact that I was creating files the same way that the other organization created theirs. That is what is confusing me, the fact that I'm creating the same type of file yet can't get the same results.

*edit*
I just got off the phone with the person who created the good file. From what I gathered, he didn't do anything special. None of this text file stuff or anything. ALL he was doing was opening Acrobat, scanning in the files directly into the program, then saving them. He specifically said he was not saving it in any sort of text form (so that the text is searchable or editable). I'm now back where I started. My dad may have to settle for large file sizes.

ps-his only answer was that they had a better scanner. that doesn't seem like a satisfactory explanation to me.