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DSpider, thanks for your helpful reply. Experimenting with the PDF settings I changed the FineReader option from "text under image" to "text and pictures only" and doing this alone produced a much more readable looking document. One thing I noticed, though, with the book I used for my test-scan is that the blocks of text do not remain aligned from page to page and now and then for some reason two parallel pages appear together as one page, despite the fact I have FineReader set to split pages.

Is there a tutorial you could point me to illustrating your third suggestion? I would like to give this a try, but it is unknown territory to me, because I don't have any experience using macros or advanced features in MS Word.