Scanned document - OCR - editing

(it is possible that i am overanalyzing this problem, but here's what's going on)
I am trying to scan a 150+ page, double sided document. Trying to run OCR on it, and then make edit’s/revisions to this document. All of this while trying to maintain the layout of the document
I’ve never really used Acrobat before so I figured I’d download the trial version of it (and subsequently Illustrator too). I am running Photoshop CS2.
The document is an old out of date, songbook with guitar cords. So it is not your standard layout. The thing about this “project” is that occasionally there are handwritten corrections to the cords. So I am trying to capture all the text, but maintain the layout of the document. And at the same time be able to edit the text.
Now the problem(s) I am running into, and these could simply stem from my not being that familiar with Acrobat and Illustrator; are 1. after I run the OCR in Acrobat, I can select, copy, and paste the MAJORITY of the text from the scanned page to a Microsoft Word document, BUT any time I try to edit the text, it does rather interesting stuff, like if I highlight and delete a word, it just moves the end of the text box closer, but the image of the word remains. Now if after “deleting” the word, I highlight, copy and paste to a Microsoft Word document again, I see that the word has been deleted there. 2. If I then import the OCR-ed pdf into Photoshop it does not import the text in an editable form.
I don’t know why Acrobat is not letting me completely edit the text because I was expecting it to allow me to do so…., I have stumbled upon a couple places that mentioned that I might not have the appropriate “Font” file to be able to fully edit the document in Acrobat, if so, is there any possible work around, other than simply retyping everything in Photoshop?
Basically the long and the short of this, is that I want to be able to import these scans into Photoshop, while capturing the text, so that I don’t have to re-type everything, but I am able to clean up, edit, and re-arrange the page(s) as I see fit.
any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I don't use Acrobat but I suggest you ask in the Acrobat forum !

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