Separating text in a PDF

So I'm pretty sure that what I need to do is possibly (at least in theory), but I can't figure out how to do it. Essentially, I need to take a map of a state with counties and color some of them in for a report. The state map has names on all the counties (which I want). However, when I save the .pdf as an .eps and open in Photoshop to paint bucket select counties, it obviously looks ugly around the edges of the font and/or the color doesn't go inside the nooks of the O's and A's, etc.


What I'd like to do is use this file and separate the text from the images. Essentially, I want to have one layer in Photoshop that is the map (i.e., w/o text) and then be able to have another layer with all the text on it in the same positions. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

Indeed, that's what I've done. But I want to re-add the text.

That's why I need to have a separate layer for the text-- so that it goes cleanly over the map and color that I add after I erase the names.

 

In case anyone ever checks this out about doing the same thing-- I wasn't able to separate the PDF into layers. Apparently that only works if the PDF was saved with layers. Even though I could highlight (only) the text on the map, I couldn't figure out how to remove it separately.

What I ended up doing was adding the map with names as a layer in my PSD file, then using Select > Color Range and selecting all the white from that layer. That essentially gave me a map that was totally transparent except for the state/county outlines and names, which was exactly what I wanted. Then, I just had to do a little experimenting with the fuzziness level and line the layers up precisely.

These are the instructions for how to do this in Photoshop CS4, although I have CS2 and it's very similar: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-76f4a.html