The document is read on your device.
Paragraphs and document structure are reconstructed.
Open the result in Word, LibreOffice or Google Docs.
The file does not leave your device. Thirty-two tools out of thirty-eight.
No, and no conversion can guarantee it: PDF and Word describe a page differently. Text and paragraph structure come across well; complex layouts, columns and elaborate tables need review. Better to know beforehand than to find out afterwards.
Only if the scan already has a text layer. If it is a pure image there is no text to extract: OCR comes first, then conversion.
No: conversion happens in the browser, on your device, and the file is not uploaded to Plicum servers.
It opens in your browser, nothing to install. Five operations a day are free, with no payment details.