Cannot edit pdf text in word 2013

I have just opened a PDF document on Word 2013. However the entire document is showing up as a picture and I am unable to edit the text.
please tell me how i can edit the pdf file using word 2013 as I believe we can. maybe i need to change the way the document is scanned.
please advise.
philip

PDFs produced by scanning processes and the like often have no text in them or, if they've been made searchable, have both the scanned pages and the text behind them. The text in such cases is typically produced by an OCR process and may not be entirely
accurate. If the PDF isn't searchable, then all you have is page images. When such PDFs are opened in Word, that's also all you'll get. If a scanned PDF is searchable, the opened file in Word will have the same structure - images overlaying the OCR'd text;
in that case, deleting the images will reveal the text behind them.
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

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