Acrobat help editing text in scanned document

I have a scanned document that I have created a PDF with. Now I want to delete some of the text, in the row without moving or distu
rbing the surrounding text. Is that possible?
PLEASE HELP

Bill@VT wrote:
You would use one of the graphics tools to cover up what you do not want. You have to then use the redax tool to remove what is hidden -- or at least that is my understanding of what you would be doing.
Actually, you would use the "mark for redaction" tool to highlight text or draw boxes around the areas you want to redact. Then you click on "apply redactions". You may then be greeted by a dialog asking if you want to get rid of some back end information related to what you redacted (like metadata, file attachments, bookmarks...etc).
It's very thorough so you'd probably want to run it ion a copy of a file until you get the hang of it.

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