Scan documents to searchable PDF files?

I hold books that I use for class and I think it would be much easier to find information contained by them if I could scan them to a PDF or even Word Document that would allow me to search for switch words. Does anyone know of any free software that would accomplish this?

Scan documents to searchable PDF files?

you just inevitability to right click on the mouse over the file and chhose begin with and after choose the program you want to open near.
Bottom line is that you involve to use an OCR (optical character recognition) program next to your scanner. There are numerous programs with varying features available at sites similar to www.tucows.com and www.downloads.com (and countless others).