Spotlight not doing so well with .pdfs

I scan a lot of documents that come across my desk, using Acrobat Pro 8.1. But I'm finding that Spotlight isn't doing a very good job of recognizing text within those documents. I'll enter a search string from that document and it won't show up in Spotlight.
Is there some trick I need to know to creating PDFs that Spotlight can index?
Or is there a better way?

I've been using Adobe Acrobat and selecting OCR as part of the scan process. Sometimes it produces PDFs that Spotlight finds, and sometimes it doesn't.
In experimenting, I'm finding the most accurate and reliable OCR process is to use the software that came with my scanner (HP Device Manager) to make the scan, and then use ReadIris to perform the OCR. It adds a few steps, and takes a lot more time, but it does seem to work better.
This is about the ONLY area in which I miss my PC. The Windows application PaperPort did this sort of thing brilliantly, efficiently, quickly. Wish someone would make something like that for Macs.

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