Highlighting in Acrobat

I am having a horrible time trying to highlight words in my scanned pdf documents in adobe acrobat 8. When I try to highlight a word, either the words above it or the words below it get highlighted and not the words I am selecting. It is driving me crazy. Anyone with help on this would be great. Thanks.

You can not highlight a scan, only text. If you want to highlight you will have to OCR. The option is to use the graphics tools to draw a box or line. It may be that you have auto OCR turned on in the scan tool. In that case, it is most likely that you simply have graphics there instead of text for that part.

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I saw Gilad answered your question in another forum post.
Do you have everything you need at this point?
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You can look here for an example with highlighting my Name at
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Oh thanks!
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