Acrobat Scanning

Hi,
I have been experimenting with different scanning settings in Acrobat 9. I have about a 60 page document that is B&W. However, I wrote on the first page with pencil and colored pen. Going from B&W to gray to color does not increase the file size significantly. If I scan in color, does Acrobat recognize that a page is B&W and store it as B&W with JBIG2 compression, or is it stored in color and just use a compression algorithm that produces results close to B&W?
Thanks,
David

Hi,
I realize that Acrobat uses a TWAIN driver to acquire the image. However, Acrobat process, compresses, and stores the image as a PDF. I am just wondering if it processes each page - each image - intelligently enough to know the color depth and store and compress based on what is scanned, rather than just the settings used. For example, I scan a document in color, but Acrobat only stores the pages in color that have color, and pages that are B&W are stored in B&W?
Thanks,
David

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