Acrobat X For "Dummies"

I am a first time us
er of Acrobat X. I have spent 2 days reading, following tutorials and have en
ded up NOT getting the info I need to do my job.
I have an scanned invoice that I need to modify to include items listed on numerous other invoices. This way I have 1 invoice that contains all items from previous invoices.
I cannot figure out how to do this!
Can someone recommend a good "how to"? Workflow? Does AX recognize the font on the scanned document and then edit in that text?
How do you "insert" a text line?
Thanks!
Dan

Thanks Dave!
I was given "step-by-step" instructions by Adobe prior to buying AAX on how to scan an invoice as a PDF ftle then "editing" it w/in AAX to modify what I needed to do.
I will start over by scanning>OCR>MS WordorExcel> then start over.
Thanks!
Dan
Per Adobe:
Insert doc in scanner>PRESS PDF B/W> proceed to Edit..
Dan

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            } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
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    Please read the API for anything you're not familiar with, and get back if you have any questions.
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