A bit off topic (sorry) but wondering about that PDF
conversion. This
may be a dumb question but did you ever try the PDF conversion in
calibre (
https://calibre-ebook.com )?
To answer my own question. Yes, that was a dumb question. I completely
over looked the 'image' in Nelson's post
The result is a
searchable document, with a single page image per PDF page, rather
than the mixed bitmap scan of 1-up and 2-up pages in the original PDF
file.
Calibre's PDF to whatever conversion doesn't do anything worthwhile with
images.