Printing a PDF from Word 2007

Good Day, I have checked several forums and the help file, but I can't seem to get a straight answer on this issue. 
Our office creates many documents in Microsoft Word 2007 that contain both typed text AND images.  For example, I have a document with a summary section and then a .jpg of an event from Facebook.  We usually Print the document using Adobe PDF and the resulting PDF is searchable with the Find tool.  The problem is that the images contain text and we want that to be searchable as well.  I found posts saying to take the PDF and Print it again as an image and then run the Recognize Text tool.  I have tried this and it does indeed work, although the resulting PDF is grainy looking (even at 600 dpi).
What I would like to know is if there is a way to get the images to be searchable during the conversion from Word to PDF. I could educate my co-workers on how to do this and save the trouble of having to touch each document more than once. Also, I do not like the graininess of the image nor the extra steps involved to convert each document.  It will require a lot more hands on maintenance than I have time for.  We are on Windows 7.
Any assistance or clues you can provide on this topic would be appreciated.  Thank you in advance, Paula C.

Any work to make the images searchable should be done BEFORE putting them in Word. It is far too late once the PDF is made because you will destroy the good work that Word did in preparing the PDF in the first place.
Sadly it's far from clear how you'd do that. About the only format you could use to hold OCRd images would be EPS, and I've never heard of "OCR to EPS" software.

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