If text hasn't been detected as editable form fields, you'll need to convert it within the editing application. Generally, the free PDF applications that are on the market have limited editing ...

Topline Portable Document Format files, or PDFs, are easily presented and exchanged across softwares—even Word—so here’s how to convert a PDF into a Microsoft Word document.

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.

If you're wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here's how to make it work.

Want to search through / edit a scanned document on your Mac? Here's how to convert a scanned document into a searchable and editable PDF using Wondershare PDFelement.