It's been many years since I've done it.
So I googled it. I hope the following link is of help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKHb0iEkSHE
I also found these links:
http://www.wikihow.com/Turn-a-Scanne...-Word-Document http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...a5cc8e1?auth=1 https://support.office.com/en-us/art...3-4589AC8B9EED https://support.office.com/en-us/art...B-418F1D690823
From memory I used a PDF option to export from scanner to as an intermediate step. But we also had Acrobat Pro. We also had an OCR software.
Last time I used it for text was for digitizing my grandfather's hand-typed autobiography (from the 50's/60's), which earlier this decade was finally released to the public in print.