When I save a document in Microsoft Word 2010 and then open it, I am unable to read it

When I save a document in Microsoft Word 2010 and then open it, I am unable to read it because it is gibberish with all kinds of symbols and numbers. I understand it has something to do with Adobe Reader. Has anyone else had this problem and how do I correct it?

Put your cursor on the icon of one of your scanned documents. Click on the right button of your mouse. In the list that will appear, put your cursor on Properties and click on the left button of your mouse. In the window that you'll get, read and make a note of what you see next to "File type" and "Opens with". Then post here what you saw.
If you don't understand these instructions, please ask for more details.

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Was Word loaded as an individual product or part of the Office suite? In other words, do you have Excel 2010 and PowerPoint 2010 and do they open?
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How do I save a pdf file as a text or Word file if the original file was a scanned jpeg file of a typed page or page from a book? That is, I have a typed manuscript from before the computer era that was never digitally entered as text. Instead of retyping the whole thing, can I scan it and then somehow extract the text so that it can be save and edited as a text or Word file? I've heard it is possible to do this. Adobe's ad pitch for Acrobat 8 Professional seems to claim it can do this but it's not very clear.
It says: "Eliminate the need to rekey information. If you don't have the original file from which a PDF document was created, you can still leverage the text and graphics while preserving formatting and layout....With Adobe® Acrobat® 8 Professional software, you can save a PDF document as a Microsoft Word file and then edit directly in Word. This helps facilitate the reuse of content when you're starting a new project, or when you need to repurpose existing text and graphics for other projects."
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OCR means "optical character recognition". When you have a scanned
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human brain can see as letters. Computers aren't as smart as the human
brain in this case, but OCR is the best it can manage: it uses
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(good, clean scan of clean first-generation later print), sometimes
very poorly (faxes, things which were ever saved as JPEG, poor scans),
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Anyway, Acrobat can do OCR - see the help. Be sure to read closely
about the options, the default will not help you in this case.
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