If you can’t select text, then the PDF is scanned and needs to have OCR applied before you can convert it into a Word document.

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.

Microsoft Word can't import PDFs, at least not for editing. If you need to turn a PDF into raw text, look no further than PDF to Word. It's free, easy to use, and entirely Web-based.

How to Convert a Scanned Document to Word Format Everything I’ve written so far focuses on PDFs that were exported from an app so that the text is embedded in the PDF.