Transfering and Copy and pasting text from a scanner

I have a HP 750 psc printer and scanner and pc running windows XP pro.
I have microsoft word and windword and works and infanview and Adobe Acrobat 7.0 professional.
I can copy and print text from from about anything and put it in a pfd , jpg , scaned .img and other stuff and e mail and or or save in PDF jpg and exc.
But I would like to just scan a text page with a scanner and be able put it in a word .doc
Where I can copy and past the text to other things like copying and pasting into a tread like this one.
But nothing I try gets the job done very good. :grinyes: :rofl: :lol:
I can copy and past text from a post like this one. No problem there.
Just getting it from the scanner to a place where I can copy and past it is the problem.
Can anyone give me any ideas or point me in the right direction.
Thanks MT

Update on it.
I changed my scan to microsoft works settings as editable text and can get the text in works and copy and paste it.
Is there any way a person can just print to works like print to PDF or ptint to Fax instead of printing to printer and than scanning it back to works?
Thanks MT