Cleartype problem: missing words

Hello,
I noticed some words are missing from the scanned (clearscan) material.
It looks like:
"When they returned      everything was      as it was yestarday"...
should be:
"When they returned home everything was left as it was yestarday"...
Just blank spots. In the original there are clearly visible letters and words. The original was scanned in 600dpi and the quality of scan is superb.
When I select text it is there, I mean I can select and copy these "empty" spaces as if the text is there.
Any clue to what could I do? It's a major issue for me. I bought Acrobat just for that and now it is unreliable...
mt

For what it's worth, the Mac version has also done this for a long time, and I'm quite surprised that there isn't more about it on the net. ClearScan is quite unreliable. It works great when it works, but everything has to be verified, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of a challenge to get an OCR that does.
I detailed some of this here:
http://ug.bu.edu/blog/lingtech/2009/02/23/acrobat-9s-clearscan-is-great-but-er-selective/
As I mention in that post, you can find places where ClearScan has "removed" this text by Examining the document and looking for hidden text. The "removed" stuff will generally be way off the page to the right.
The last post in this thread mentioned that an update (Windows version I assume) fixed it, but the Mac version I'm using (9.3.1 Pro) still does it. Is there an actual fix on the horizon?
More importantly, is there any way at all to "repair" broken files? It might be that scanning the file for objects that are off to the right of the page and shifting them left so they are back on the page would work. I don't know how reliable the horizontal coordinate is (is it off by some systematic amount?), but I would love to be able to at least not re-OCR everything (much less try to validate every document I OCR'ed before I realized that this bug existed), and in some cases I even tossed the original and certainly the pre-OCR'ed scan file, so redoing them is not even an option.

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