Acrobat X freezes on OCR during "recognizing text" step

Acrobat X standard freezes every time I try to OCR a document - it starts through the process but when it gets to the "recognizing text" stage it just freezes - wondows says program not responding.

We did test along with the end user that reported the issue, and we both saw the same performance drop with prior scanned documents and new ones. Its also the same for whether the PDFs are saved locally to the TS or a share folder on different server.
Whats really frustrating is that one Adobe phone tech agreed with me that OCR was running too slow when I had them remote into the server. That tech escalated the issue to "senior support" which never followed up with us. After days of waiting I called back and was told it was working "normally" and that the PDFs themselves were the issue. But again with the same files completing OCR 30% faster on a different server makes me want to call "bluff" on Adobe support. I'm just not sure of another way to isolate the issue.

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