Does Photoshop Elements have a feature similiar to acrobat?

baersteve  wrote Hello all.  I am new to photoshop elements and have been given a task at work.  I have several PDF with nothing but text.  I know Acrobat has a feature that will allow editing of text once it converts the text to an editable format.  Unfortunately I do not have access to Acrobat any more.  Does Elements have some similar feature that will scan and make any text editable?  Thank you for any help that you may provide.

No.

Elements does not do OCR (optical character recognition).

It can open pdf documents as 'bitmap' only.

The only situation it can recognize text in pdf format is when the format is 'Photoshop PDF', that is a format combining a normal 'Acrobat pdf' version and a .psd or .tiff containing text layers.

You can try this by saving a file with text layers in the Photoshop pdf format and reopening it in Elements. With such a pdf format, the .psd/.tiff layered version is opened directly without rastering the text.