Converting PDF to Word is a great way to edit PDF documents just like any other text files. The main difficulty is to edit and, as we just found out, convert scanned PDF documents. We decided to figure out the ways to convert scanned PDF documents to Word that require OCR recognition. It was rather surprising when it came to testing out the software and online tools that were meant for PDF to Word conversion, since we couldn’t find any other free ways to convert scanned PDFs to Doc format other than with the use of Icecream PDF Converter. This software turned out to be the only OCR software that is capable of turning scanned PDF files into text for free out of the five programs we tested. We also tried seven online tools and all of them failed as well. Take a look at the results of our research on how to convert scanned PDF documents to Word documents below.
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