Help scanning technical documents to pdf

Hi,
Newbie using Acrobat 9 standard (updated to 9.1) with new Fujitsu S1500 document scanner.
I need to scan to pdf a number of technical documents -- no color, these are white background (or, at least, should be white -- some are old and a bit discolored), mostly text and some grayscale illustrations/images and electronic schematics.
Been playing with various options -- scanning resolutions, B&W vs Grayscale, and "Optimize Scanned PDFs" (in Acrobat 9.1) for several hours, and not making much progress. The issue is that the scanned documents do not print out as good as the originals.
I am hoping that some Acrobat pro's familiar with document scanning can provide some advice.
My goals:
1) PDF needs to print out as close to original as possible
2) File size optimized for small size as much as possible, as some of the documents will be 100-pages and may need to be emailed.
3) If possible, is there a way to manually clean-up the scans in Acrobat? For example, removing the occasionally spot / mark / staple-hole that shows up in the scan. The PDF Optimizer settings, even agressive, do not seem to remove these marks. Since the background of all of these documents is white, a simple way to "clear" the spots to a white backgound would be perfect.
Any suggestions or best way to approach this project will be appreciated. Thanks.

100 pages of graphics is going to most likely be too large to e-mail. You would have to post them on the web for someone to grab. Sometimes grayscale seems to work better for me, but I don't do enough to know why. B&W is what I generally what I want (and it sounds like what you want), but there is typically a problem with the quality when I do it. You need to probably play with the resolution and such to get reasonable performance. I would suggest 300 dpi. After you save the file, make a copy and try OCR on it. Once the OCR is complete, do a Save as to remove the old stuff. You may then want to go back and view the suspects, correcting as you go. It may be that Acrobat also has already converted some things wrong. You will have to go back and check. Then do one more Save As.
You might then want to save the document as a DOC file or related format. If you have equations, they will probably have to either be retyped or clipboarded from the PDF as a graphic. The OCR would hopefully give you the smallest file size. You can also try using Reduce File Size or the PDF Optimizer to reduce the file size and delete junk that is not needed.

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