Is there any way I can rescue the text from a 70 page scan

I was so excited when I found this app because I am entering a lot of recipes from my cookbooks into MealBoard, a meal planning app. I was happy to take a picture of the humorous descriptions of recipes and the directions so I could copy/paste instead of typing everything by hand.

At first I went recipe by recipe but I thought it would be good to be able to do more on the go by having all recipes saved in Adobe. So I took pictures of all the recipes to be saved in a single document. This totaled 71 pages, some sore muscles from holding my iPad and the book where they would get the least glare, and about one and a half hours of my time.

When I finished, I was relieved to be done with that major hassle, only to discover that it wouldn’t take text from documents more than 25 pages long and furthermore, there was no way to split it up into three documents. If I tried to go back, it warned me it would delete the whole thing, so I had only two options that I could see: delete 2/3 of my work or save without recognizing the text. I saved as a PDF without text for now. I didn’t know what else to do.

Is there a way I can salvage this or do I have to start all over?