Why can't I scan anything onto my MAC as a Word Document?  I'm sure i was able to do it before!

I'm sure I was able to scan letters etc as a Word Document but now all I send me to able to scan them as are JPEG, PDF etc.
Is there anything I can do to change this?
Thanks

I've not seen a scanning protocol that delivers a ready-to-use Word doc. Usually, you get the OCR scan in text format (.txt), copy it to the clipboard (command c), then open a new Word documat and paste the text into Word.
Once you have it in Word you can do all the typical formatting that Word allows.
NOTE: Text scanning is seldom error-free. Yo uwill need to carefully review the text file to look for errors, such as "1" scanning as "!"
Check you scanner software. If the scanner is capable of OCR, that option will show in the scan menu.
If you post the make and model of your scanner, that may help people give you a more definitive solution.

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