Free pdf OCR solution using Microsoft tools

Came across an issue where I had to convert a poorly scanned pdf document to word. The steps I took were to print the pdf to the "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer", saved as a .mdi file, then open it up in Microsfot Office Document Imaging (in the tools section), then choose to OCR the document and save text to Word. Worked fairly nicely and simply had to clean up the text.