Scanned in file as pdf, but won't open in Acrobat

So I scanned in around 20 pages of work, all as pdf files, and they all open fine in Adobe Reader. However I am trying to open them in Acrobat and it says that there has been an error, that the file has been damaged and cannot be retrieved.
I don't exactly want to re-scan everything, but I'm confused as to why it would open fine in Reader, but not Acrobat. Does anyone have any advice for this?
Thanks!

Sound like you have an old version of Acrobat and new version of Reader. Apparently the scanner put the PDF in a new version and it is failing the read options of your old Acrobat. At least that is my guess. Try scanning a page directly into Acrobat and I bet it still will not work. In that case, you might consider scanning to TIFF and then opening the TIFF files you get in Acrobat (I typically drag and drop to preserve the order -- Acrobat typically reverses the order). If you post again, try to provide the versions of your software and you might look at the beginning of the PDF in an editor (don't save) to check the version number.

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