Form Field Recognition in Acrobat Professional X

I am having problems with creating a form in Acrobat X Professional. The document (18 pages!) is scanned and saved in PDF format. 95% of the fields in the hard copy are check mark fields. The required rresponse is a check or leave blank.
A typical line is as follows:
"Open four card major suits in 3rd seat____ or 4th seat____ with a PT of ________(number field) to _________(number field).
The first page alone has 39 check mark fields indicated on the printed hard copy as ___.
I cannot get X Professional's auto field creation to even recognize "___" as a field, much less as a check mark field.
Is there any way to "teach" X Professional to recognioze (learn) and create a field based on original source information?

Acrobat can't recognize fields from a scanned document. You might want to try saving the document to Word, converting back to PDF and see if that works.

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Anoop9178 wrote:
Hi Alex,
Please refer to following forum post.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5765569#5765569
Regards,
Anoop
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