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.

A number of software applications are available that will help you do this, but the simplest way to extract text from a PDF to Word is by copying and pasting.

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.

Editing in PDFs in Microsoft Word has become a lot easier since Microsoft built in more functionality, starting with Word 2016. Its cousin the Edge browser has impressive PDF capabilities too ...