Proofread and correct OCR'd text in Acrobat 10 Pro

How do you proofread and correct text produced by OCR from a scanned document, in Acrobat 10 Pro?
I scan (many, large) paper documents, then use Recognise Text. After the OCR phase, if I save PDFs as text, I can see many scan errors.
I would like to be able to correct those errors 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 Tools / Content / Edit Document Text, but I cannot see how to display the scanned text to allow correction. It appears to operate on the PDF image. But if I try to change the document image to correct known errors (e.g. in spacing), and then save the PDF as text again, the string where I changed the image becomes gibberish.
How is Edit Document Text supposed to work? Is there any way to achieve what I am looking for (fixing many errors in large OCR'd documents)?
Regards,
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.
That's not to say you cannot work at it and get results. But, the operative word is practical.
In that context you may want to look over a reply I made here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/950209?tstart=0
To increase accuracy of OCR recognition:
Yes, there are dedicated OCR applications (desktop or server). Having used several of each as well as Acrobat's OCR I've learned that also significant is the scanner and the quality of the hardcopy source.
Regarding the remainder of your post above.
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.
Here are some useful video tutorials:
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/clearscan-vs-imagetext-ocr
A listing of others: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/filter/search&keywords=scanning%20ocr&tut_type=Video&cha nnel=tutorials/
At Adobe TV:
http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/filter/search&keywords=scanning%20ocr&tut_type=Video&cha nnel=tutorials/
Be well...

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