Converting MS powerpoint files to pdf files with preservation of text so that it can be indexed

I have a bunch of powerpoint presentation that I want to convert to pdf documents so that I can make them available over the web. I have already done this, but it seems that there are a variety of formats that you can get depending upon on the conversion is made.
I want to preserve the text within the powerpoint slides so that it can be indexed using a search engine indexing tool such as the zoom search engine (or Google).
I created a number of document formats using the Mac OS X Lion print as PDF feature, saving it as a PDF from Powerpoint (Mac Office) and printing it as a PDF with the Save as Adobe PDF option in the Mac OS from PowerPoint. I have Acrobat Pro installed on the Mac.
The save as Adobe PDF option seems to do the best, but there is some text that still isn't getting saved or indexed.
Just wondering what the best way to do this is.
Thanks.
Stephen

Are you able to select text in the PDF that gets created?

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