Change a .pdf to a .doc ?

[Dora]

At work, we get scanned documents in .pdf format.

We need to convert them so we can type and cut and paste and move and all sorts of stuff. But when we try to convert them through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) we get whacked out gobbledy-gook. It does recognize most of the characters, but it will insert wacky formats and characters, etc.

HELP!!!

What would be a better approach to this situation????