As Microsoft explains, you can open a scanned PDF in Word easily on versions after Word 2010. First, use your scanner and save the document as a PDF in a location you'll be able to find easily.

Steps: Open PDFelement, select the scanned PDF, and use the OCR feature to convert the image into editable text. You can then copy and paste the text as needed.

You can select and copy text just like you would in any regular PDF or document opened in Chrome. More importantly, screen readers can now read the content of such scanned PDFs aloud with ease.