You can also use other online services if you don’t want to use OnlineOCR. Try Small PDF or a similar PDF converter.

On a Mac, you may click Choose here.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you may need to select a save location or confirm the download before the file will download.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you may need to select a save location or confirm the download before the file will download.

This is necessary because, since you downloaded the Word document from the Internet, Word views it as potentially dangerous. Remember to save any changes you make by pressing Ctrl+S (Windows) or ⌘ Command+S (Mac).

Don’t panic if you don’t have a printer attached to your computer—you won’t actually be printing anything.

If you don’t see Open with in the drop-down menu, click anywhere to close the drop-down menu, then click once the PDF to select it before you right-click it again.

This may take a few minutes.

If your document isn’t entirely editable or a large group of the document’s text is inaccurate, you might want to use Online OCR instead.

If you don’t see Word here, you can still open the PDF by opening Word, clicking File, clicking Open, and selecting the PDF in the Finder window that appears.

This may take a few minutes.

If your document isn’t entirely editable or a large group of the document’s text is inaccurate, you might want to use Online OCR instead.