Editable pdf in Word ?

Hi RayBauer

I am Juliet and It's my pleasure to help you today.

How are you? I hope you are doing good.

Just to clarify, Word will convert the PDF document into an editable Word document.....

1. Scan your document according to the instructions for your scanner, and save it to your computer as a .pdf file.
2. In Word, click File > Open.
3. Browse to the location of the PDF file on your computer and click Open.
4. A message appears, stating that Word will convert the PDF file into an editable Word document.
5. Click OK.

I hope it helps! Let me know the results.

Have a nice day ahead and Stay safe always :)

source:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/scan...

Ray:

As has been already pointed out, your scanner will make an image of the paper. It will save that image in one of several formats. It may be as a "picture", like a JPG. Or it may be a PDF. Actually, this video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HToLDccavc shows it saving scans as PDF.

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In that case you have to use Word to "Open" that PDF. When you do that, Word will perform a function called OCR, Optical Character Recognition. That is geek speak for the computer "looking" at the image and trying to match what it sees to what it knows as "letters". It puts those letters into a DOCX file. It is only a computer, it makes mistakes. So you have to read it carefully looking for errors. There are other PDF files with a special PDF format that are generated from text based documents. This format actually stores the text in the file. When the file is "OCR'd", the OCR sees that text and uses it rather than guessing. Obviously that format explicitly does not apply to files you have scanned using your printer/scanner.

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Here are a couple of articles on "editing" PDF files in Word

https://www.officetooltips.com/word_365/tips/open_and_edit_pdf_files_in_word.html

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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/opening-pdfs-in-word-1d1d2acc-afa0-46ef-891d-b76bcd83d9c8

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Actually, I just remembered that there are also some programs (free and paid) that will allow you to "edit" PDF files directly. While you won't be able to edit the text, you will be able to add text "boxes", images and other stuff. So you could "white out" some text and type over it. It is somewhat clumsy, but it can be done. It has the advantage of making it obvious what has been changed.

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Here is another review/unboxing/setup of your printer, in case you are interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRkJ7qh--Y .

A pdf can be created from a Word document. Those can easily be opened and edited by Word.

The pdf could have been created from a web page. Those can easily be opened and edited by Word.

It could have been created from a scan or a picture taken by a phone camera. Those are pictures of words saved as pdfs. Just as you can have a picture of a car. You can see the car in the picture, but you can't change the timing of the engine in that picture. You can't change the order of text or otherwise edit it with a picture of text. Word can open such a file, but it can't edit it. You have a Word file that contains a picture of text rather than text.

There is an intermediate kind of program or process called OCR. That is, Optical Character Recognition. If run on a picture of text, it gives text, more or less accurately (but seldom perfectly). Most scanners come with such software. It is built into Adobe Acrobat (but not Acrobat Reader). It is also in OneNote.

How to OCR a PDF in OneNote

Once translated into text, it can be edited in Word.

Word is not able to edit all types of PDFs. Scanned documents will usually require third-party OCR (optical character recognition) software before you can edit them in Word.

Word / Office does not "edit" pdf files.

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Word does open a PDF, performs OCR on it and saves the result as a document.

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What tool are you using to "scan" your document? Is this a paper document?