How to Convert a Scanned PDF to Word Without Losing Your Mind
Why Scanned PDFs Are Different From Normal PDFs Anyone who has worked with documents for more than a week has hit this wall. You receive a PDF that looks like a photocopy. It is an image of a page, not a text file. You cannot select a word, copy a paragraph, or search for a name. This is a scanned PDF. To turn it into an editable Microsoft Word document, you need something extra. The extra is Optical Character Recognition, or OCR. OCR reads the shapes in the image and turns