An alternative to using the features in Word is to use an online optical character recognition (OCR) service to convert the text in your PDF to a Word document, as discussed by Computer Hope.

If a worker or client has sent you a PDF that you want to edit, you must first extract the text from the PDF and paste it into a word processing program such as Microsoft Word.

There are several ways you can convert a PDF file to a Word document, including a method that only takes a few clicks.

Learn how to convert an image into editable text using Microsoft Word. Follow this step-by-step guide to easily extract text from images for editing.