Editing Actual Text in PDF File

Is there any way or a third party software that will allow me to actually edit text in a PDF???
Right now, I have a PDF file that was emailed to me for printing and some text in the file needs to be modified. I would just like to edit the actual text instead of waiting for the sender to edit the text in whatever program they used to create the PDF from.
I presently have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Mike

The Adobe Reader for SymbianOS isn't a PDF editor. You'd need Acrobat
for that, using the Text Touch-up Tool.
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