Editing text in scanned document (OCR)

I'm a newbie, and I've tried my hardest to do this without asking for help, but could only get so far.
I have PDFs that are scanned pages of text in boxes. All I want to do is edit some of the text. I'm able to activate OCR so that text is recognizable and selectable, but obviously this isn't enough to actually edit the text. I think a plug-in might help me, but the first one I tried didn't seem to work.
In the end, I got one page done by opening the PDF in Photoshop and covering the old text with a white box and the new text. This is NOT ideal! Also, because this is nice and new, crisp text added with Photoshop, it stands out a bit from the unedited text which is slightly fuzzy because it is a scanned image.
Free is always best, and I'd like to save money, but I can afford buying new software and plug-ins if I must. Is it possible to do what I am trying to do? If so, what version of Acrodbat do I need? If I need any extras, what should I get?
Thanks in advance.

Editing in this way is not really ideal. Anyway, you needed to do the OCR that created graphics and text. I.E., replaces anything that is recognized by the text and deletes the related image of that part. You would then need to check for the problems (the other step in OCR with Acrobat). Af ter that you may have a pretty good copy, maybe not. You should then be able to edit text, but probably with difficulty. The text boxes and such may not be setup for good editing. You might find it easier at that point to save it as a DOC file and edit in a word processor, even if you have a lot of repair to do. It should still be better than starting from scratch.

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De: Phillip Jones [email protected]
Enviado el: martes, 27 de noviembre de 2012 18:24
Para: Suárez Suárez, Manuela
Asunto: I cannot edit text in a PDF created from scanning
Re: I cannot edit text in a PDF created from scanning
created by Phillip Jones<http://forums.adobe.com/people/PhillipMJones> in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs - View the full discussion<http://forums.adobe.com/message/4877588#4877588

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