Cannot edit document text

I selected Edit Document Text under Tools | Content | Edit Text & Objects. I place my cursor on the pdf and nothing happens. I then thought that the problem might be that Acrobat does not recognize the text. So I enabled OCR. I then placed my cursor before the text I wanted to change, typed, and nothing happened. The cursor did move to the right, but no new text appeared and the underlying text remained unchanged.
How can I edit the text?

To see changes, you have to have OCR'd with Clearscan. If you used either of the Searchable Text options, then you would only change the hidden text (I have not tried that) and the picture of the original would remain unchanged.

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