Scan and fill form using Acrobat 6.0

How can I scan hardcopy of a form, save as PDF, open the form in Acrobat 6.0, and fill in the blanks (fields)?

Thanks Dave.
I'm aware that my 6.0 acrobat is way out of date.  But I thought I created a fillable form a few years ago using it.  But in that case it probably was a PDF going into the process, not a scanned form.  Also, I was using vista at the time and now have win 7/64bit.
I'll try the OCR routine but your post suggests what I suspected, that I can't get to where I'm going from here.
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:27:21 -0700
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Subject: Scan and fill form using Acrobat 6.0
    Re: Scan and fill form using Acrobat 6.0
    created by CtDave in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs - View the full discussion
As Acrobat 6 went out of support / obsolete many years ago you'll want to be sure the OS is compatible and the scanner software is compatible.
Use Acrobat's create PDF from scanner feature (review the Help file if needed, the Help PDF was installed when Acrobat 6 was installed).
So, you'll now have that PDF.
But, it is not yet a form PDF.
The scanner output is an image so you have an image / a picture as the PDF page content.
You may want to use Acrobat's OCR feature to provide a hidden layer of renderable characters.
Use Acrobat's form tools to build your form. As Acrobat 6 is long ago gone by I don't recall if it had a "form wizard". Check the Help PDF.
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