I just want to take an already created scanned pdf

[isellit15]

Help I just paid to be able to convert scanned docs to word so that I can fill them out on my laptop. It doesnt work. What have I done wrong

[pwillener]

You need to run text recognition (OCR) with the conversion; this will convert text in a scanned image to real (editable) text.

[isellit15]

TThank you. I am a 67 year old guy, What is OCR software do I purcase it or can I down load it? Thanks for your help

[pwillener]

What did you pay for: Acrobat, or the ExportPDF service?

Both of these can do OCR.  If you tell us what you use, someone can give you detailed instructions how to use it.