Removing random dots or speckles in scanned documents using Adobe Acrobat DC

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Karl,

Here is what a chat agent suggested as a way of removing random dots and speckles from scanned documents:

Priyanka: I would like to inform you that there is no erase option is present (sic) under Acrobat pro dc
Priyanka: but yes you can do one thing

carl kirsch: I should be able to "edit" any speckle or random dot out of existence.
Priyanka: you can got (sic) to edit pdf and then select text box and then past (sic) it to those places where dots are present
Priyanka: then select the text box and change the color as white.
carl kirsch: Okay. That makes sense. So the suggest[ed] solution is to paste a text box over the random speckle or dot and then delete it just like I would do to text. Right?
Priyanka: there is no need to delete
Priyanka: you can change the color of the text area
Priyanka: text field boundry
Priyanka: boundary *
carl kirsch: What color would I change to? White?
Priyanka: yes

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Karl, what the agent is suggesting is that I go to the "Edit" toolbox, select the "text box" tool and surround the random dot or speckle with a "text box" and, thereafter, change the color of the interior of the text box to the color "white", thereby in effect "erasing" the dot or speckle. 

To me, the agent's suggestion (that I have not tried out yet) is a simple and straightforward workaround to the absence of a specific eraser tool built into Adobe Acobat DC.  What do you think?

(By the way, Nuance's Paperport 14 has an eraser tool. After you scan a document using Paperport's scan function, you can save it to .pdf on Paperport's desktop.  Thereafter, you use Paperport's eraser tool to delete any random dots and speckles on the .pdf document.  After you clean up the .pdf document, in Paperport, you open the cleaned up .pdf doc. with Adobe Acrobat and save the cleaned up .pdf document using Acrobat to any folder on your computer.  Before I bought Adobe Acobat Standard DC ("DC"), I asked the Adobe salesman if DC had such an eraser tool and he said, "Yes; it's built into DC."  Sadly, I now learn no such eraser tool exists in Adobe Acobat Standard DC.  To me, that is a major design flaw in the current versions of DC Standard and Pro. I am very disappointed.  I would demand my money back and return to using Acrobat X, but Adobe no longer supports Acrobat X.  Hopefully, the chat agent's suggestion above will work, because my Paperport that has worked flawlessly for years has now developed an unresolved problem that is interfering with production of a cleaned up copy of a .pdf document scanned to Paperport.)

Carl Kirsch