Acrobat Pro 9 - Clearscan OCR

Hi folks,
A collegue has Acrobat Pro 9.3.3 (I am on Pro 8 so no issue) and when he runs the clearscan OCR engine it creates the hidden text but for some reason deletes the scanned text from the image..... certainly a clearscan!!!!! Is this a known bug with Pro 9? or is there a fix to get the text back in the image
Look forward to some thoughts on this issue
John

Bill,
I am attaching a page from the document. I have marked where the text
has been deleted. If I examine the document... the hidden text can be
seen. If I copy all and paste into textpad the text can also be seen!
Lastly I did a text touch up to edit the pdf on the blank bits and when
I changed the font to times roman the text appears?
Any thoughts because there is hidden text... I think
John

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