Looking for a simple way to open a PDF

[BML]

I found a useful book with a great bibliography. The only problem was that it is 28 pages long in close typing where the book titles run into each other. I want to change that to entries of one line.
I believe that it is possible to scan a page, copy it onto Word which will be in a PDF format and then use an OCR application to make them editable. This will allow me to edit them and I will be able to turn them in one title entries.
I tried a couple of "Free" OCR applications which when I attempted to use them turned out to require paying for.
I then found the following, “EasyOCR – Windows Apps on Microsoft Store.” Regrettably the kindest review was, “This is a piece of junk and it does not work on Windows 10”.
Could someone please recommend a FREE OCR app that is free and does actually work?

[RoryOF]

gimagereader will take a PDF file and using Tesseract OCR engine may give you satisfactory results.

[erbsenzahl]

Could someone please recommend a FREE OCR app that is free and does actually work?

Try out https://www.pdf24.org
You can run the OCR module online or after installing on your machine. Be advised that probably each page has to be proofread. Get more experience by doing... - Cheers

[John_Ha]

See the tutorial on PDFs for lots of ideas.