When you scan a page, you make a picture of the page. If you want to extract the text from the picture, you need an OCR application such as Acrobat Professional. Word is not an OCR program.



Other people posting around this topic have suggested your scanner may come with OCR software. Give it a try! my scanner is too old for such a luxury :-{

I'm a dummy, I realized I can do pdf's off my scanner to my laptop. Ironically I did alot of this a year ago but forgot all about it. Senior citizen moment.

thanks