Acrobat X and OCR Accuracy Issues

Does anyone know if you can assign a custom dictionary to the OCR process?
I have thousands of scanned pages in PDF format that I need to OCR.
When I OCR the same PDFs using another product, I get much better results. Acrobat does not see the same word in the same way twice (swaping "er" endings for where there are "or" word endings). It also misses words that other engines have picked up.
Does it spell check?
I know it is possible to go back and edit, but I have thousands pages to do.
You might also ask -- so why not just use the other product? It does not compress the PDFs the way Acrobat can -- and a two step solution is not desirable (OCR for one part, then move to Acrobat to optimize).
thank you for your help.

When I attempt to OCR a document with the main language as Japanese, the resulting exported text file does not contain the appropriate unicode characters. There are just periods for the Japanese letter forms. Is there another option that needs to be selected?

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When I attempt to OCR a document with the main language as Japanese, the resulting exported text file does not contain the appropriate unicode characters. There are just periods for the Japanese letter forms. Is there another option that needs to be selected?

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I purchased Acrobat Pro XI last month to try to digitize all my text books (Scanned as TIFF and imported to PDF). I've been pretty unimpressed in general. Specifically to your question, it seems that if a page has a photo on it or some complex image, Acrobat won't deskew it. My version updated just today to 11.0.06 and it still has this problem. I think it does deskew when "Apply Adaptive Compression" is selected because that option causes each page to be broken into parts (text/image).
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