How can I do this in Adobe Acrobat?

Question

I scanned in an old flyer. I want to replace a few words in the flyer with different words. Otherwise the format will remain the same. How can I do this easily?

(I tried covering the old text with a rectangle and placing a text field on top, but when I printed it, the old text showed also.)

Answer 1

not that easy in acrobat...open up in indesign, photoshop and erase copy and retype new...
or..
save/export as a jpg and open in word and try what you just did

Answer 2

when you scan in an old flyer, it is scanned in as an image, NOT as eidtable text. a scanner doesn't understand what it's scanning it's essentially a colour photocopier/zerox machine.

while you can use an OCR program on the image to turn text in a scanned image file into real text, it would ignore everything else in the flyer (graphics/pictures/fonts etc) and would need proof-reading.

so what you have is a picture/image file made up pixels - nothing more than a collection of coloured dots.

the 'cheap and dirty' way to do this would be to take the scanned image and load it into something like photoshop, gimp, or paint shop pro then blank out the original text with the airbrush tool and then use the font tool to place the new text.

essentially, you should forget adobe acrobat altogether because to even edit acrobat documents you have to pay for the acrobat editing software - and for starters you don't have a 'real' acrobat file, you have a scanned image file.

Answer 3

If you have the Professional version you may be able to use the text touch up too.