Cleaning up scanned document

I've got a PDF file that came from a scanned book. Bookmarks have been added, but no OCR performed. The pages are huge (I'm guessing about 100cm x 150cm as I don't know how to check). Acrobat 9 Pro can't do OCR as the pages are too big (see, I told you they were huge!).
Is there a way to rescale this other than printing to PDF?
Another problem is that the margins are all over the place, and the thought of manually setting the crop on 650 pages fills me with dread. Is there a more friendly way of cropping the pages? I have in mind a fixed sized box that I can drag over the page and select the part I want. Failing that, a way to remove white-space?

A badly scanned booked cannot be cropped nicely without doing it page by page. However, there is an option in the crop dialog box to set margins to remove whitespace. But this can create different sized pages depending upon how the book was originally set. If the are uniform running headers and footers, then it might work.

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