You have a couple of options. For the text option, you can use Acrobat Professional to convert the scan to text. Open the file, Select Document: OCR Text Recognition: Recognize text using OCR. In the dialog box you get, click edit and make sure you have Formatted Text and Graphics selected as your PDF Output style. This will give you text in place of pictures for any text Acrobat can convert.
To edit the text, select Tools: Advanced Editing, Touch Up Text.
When you edit the text, note that it wont wrap like a word processor, so you can edit the text on a line-by-line basis. If you need more editing capability, you'll need to export the text to Word, Text, ot RTF and use a word processor.
You *can* edit the text in Photoshop, but you'll be editing it as a grpahic element. It wont be searchable and it wont flow even within a line. It's very cumbersome to do.
For the graphics, you can edit by selecting a graphic with the Touch Up Object tool. Select the graphic by dragging over it. Right-click and the graphic and choose Edit Image. The image will open in Photoshop (or any other pixel-based editing tool you determine as your tool of choice in Acrobat's preferences). Edit the image and save your work. Close PS and the image will update in Acrobat.
Do note that the process is not perfect in any case. Acrobat and PDF were not built as editing tools for this purpose. Your best bet may be to scan the document. OCR it in Acrobat, and then Export it to a content editing tool such as Word or InDesign.
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To edit the text, select Tools: Advanced Editing, Touch Up Text.
When you edit the text, note that it wont wrap like a word processor, so you can edit the text on a line-by-line basis. If you need more editing capability, you'll need to export the text to Word, Text, ot RTF and use a word processor.
You *can* edit the text in Photoshop, but you'll be editing it as a grpahic element. It wont be searchable and it wont flow even within a line. It's very cumbersome to do.
For the graphics, you can edit by selecting a graphic with the Touch Up Object tool. Select the graphic by dragging over it. Right-click and the graphic and choose Edit Image. The image will open in Photoshop (or any other pixel-based editing tool you determine as your tool of choice in Acrobat's preferences). Edit the image and save your work. Close PS and the image will update in Acrobat.
Do note that the process is not perfect in any case. Acrobat and PDF were not built as editing tools for this purpose. Your best bet may be to scan the document. OCR it in Acrobat, and then Export it to a content editing tool such as Word or InDesign.
I am a long-time Acrobat user, an employee of Adobe Systems, and Maine native. I have created training videos for Total Training, consulted with people to help them better use Acrobat, and developed new business for Adobe as a Business Development Manager