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jimdays - have you tried
- converting a DOCX from Word (or Writer) with calibre
- importing a DOCX into the calibre book editor
- using Toxaris' e-Book Tools - a Word add-in
Any one of them should do a better job than exporting a PDF from Word and OCRing it. As eschwartz indicates - you'll have to do some editing, but not to get rid of the crud created by OCR scanning.
BR