OCR recognition corrections in Acrobat X Standard

I was wondering if there was a way to identify words for searchability that the OCR function has not recognized as text. I ran OCR on a particular file and there were several words that it didn't even recognize as suspects and it would be extremely useful if there is a way to manually recognize those words. I am working in Acrobat X Standard.

I have a related question. How do you proofread and correct text produced by OCR from a scanned document?
After OCR, if I save documents as text, I see many scan errors. I would like to be able to correct those in the scanned text so that names etc can be successfully searched. However I cannot find any way to view and correct the scanned text. I experimented with text touch up, but it did not display the scanned text or allow correction.
Regards,
Sue.
Excuse me, my question concerns Acrobat X Pro. I will start a new thread.

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Sue.

"This is a 76-page document, and the users will expect to see the image looking like the scanned original."
That locks it down. The only way to satisfy this is Searchable Image (Exact).
The scanned image serves as the an objective replacement for the source hardcopy.
The OCR output exists to facilitate search/find.
At the end of the day there is no practical means of editing OCR's Hidden Text layer with it in the PDF.
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http://forums.adobe.com/thread/950209?tstart=0
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Ok, I cannot replicate what you describe with a PDF I've been using.
It is a scanned image of a single page of textual content.
After ClearScan I can export to Word (&, of course, have some cleanup required).
I can use the TouchUp Text / Edit Document Text tool to select all the PDF page's content (the ClearScan output).
Changed the font to TimesNewRoman, saved, and exported to Word.
The content in Word needed cleanup.
Next, I selected various words and typed in a replacement word.
After a Save I Exported to Word. The changed words carried through.
re: Q1 - What you describe is symptomatic of the Hidden text output of Searchable Image / Searchable Image (Exact) and not ClearScan. So, I'm perplexed.
re: Q2 - An advantage of ClearScan is being able to edit a text string to correct it. So, sure, why not correct? With that said, it can be a tedious and labor intensive activity. As well, typos are possible during correction which begs the question "Who bells the cat?" 8^)
re: Q3 - If corrections to the ClearScan output meets your needs an export to Word may not be needed.
However, sometimes ClearScan cannot recognize the image of a character and leaves it as a bitmapped image.
So, to correct you'd have to get into a word processor.
re: Q4 - Goes back to Q3.
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http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/clearscan-vs-imagetext-ocr
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