It looks as though this problem isn't only with papers that start off as images. I've asked a new question at https://help.pdf24.org/en/questions/question/why-does-converting-a-text-pdf-to-word-leave-it-as-images/...

Thanks a lot Stefan, I've just done so. I'm taking this seriously because it's for a student with bad eyesight. They find it difficult to read PDFs, and prefer to convert them to Word. They can then highlight...

I don't understand why PDF24 has trouble with this, but the other converters don't. I wanted to use PDF24 because it sometimes does less damage to diagrams. But with this happening, I'm stuck.

When I put my mouse over the Word file, at the cursor is a cross made of four arrows. If I click on the mouse and try to select text, it moves the entire page as an image. If I do Control-A to select the...

This is similar to my question at https://help.pdf24.org/en/questions/question/why-does-ocring-and-converting-to-docx-leave-the-docx-file-as-images/ , except that there, the PDF being converted was images...

The screenshot below shows stages in converting a PDF to Word and attempting to edit the result. Although the PDF is text, the Word version has come across as images. I'm very confused by this. It may...

This is Phil van Kleur, who wrote the question above. I spent over half an hour preparing screenshots to include in the question, only to find when I'd uploaded them all that the system refused to accept...

I have a PDF of an academic paper which looks as though it's been scanned, and is not searchable. I wanted to convert it to a Word file wherein the pages are text rather than images. I did so by using...