Since scanned documents are usually saved as images or PDFs, turning them into editable Microsoft Word files isn't entirely straightforward. However, you can do it in a few different ways.

Topline Portable Document Format files, or PDFs, are easily presented and exchanged across softwares—even Word—so here’s how to convert a PDF into a Microsoft Word document.

Steps: Open PDFelement, select the scanned PDF, and use the OCR feature to convert the image into editable text. You can then copy and paste the text as needed.

If you're wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here's how to make it work.