Here are a couple of links that talk about it: There are free and paid tools you can download and free online services that can do OCR.įYI: in the Office bundle only OneNote has a true OCR feature. Google for 'OCR PDF' to find tools that can do this. If Word cannot handle the PDF you need a tool that performs OCR, Optical Character Recognition. Many PDFs are created as a single image with pictures and text mixed. Word requires PDFs in a special format, one that puts text and images in separate 'layers'.
Word 2016/365 claims to be able to read PDF files. As you can see from the other replies there is no simple answer to the question.
