Trying to overwrite OCR text

I'm having issues in Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.5.5 where I can't overwrite text that was OCR.  I don't know if I'm missing a step.  When I search the document, it does pickup the particular text that I want to update.  Any suggestions.
(To be more specific) I have selected the "Document" menu and OCR all text.  What I can not process is deleting the text and replacing it within the .pdf document.
Thank you

Acrobat (9 & above) provides three OCR methods.
--| Searchable Image
--| Searchable Image (Exact)
--| ClearScan
The first two provide an OCR output that makes use of "hidden" / "invisible" text.
No practicable way to touchup/edit this.
Try using ClearScan.
Be well...

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