Acrobat X: PDF to PS and back results in a "nice" PDF, but copy text from it is bad!

We used this workflow (PDF -> PS -> PDF) to get very small filesizes in any cases.
Before, we had problems with certain PDFs with many layers.
But now we have problems with the text within these PDFs.
Selecting text and copying it (to clipboard) and past it somewhere results in small rectangles (                ).
Any ideas?
Thanks
Norbert

Acrobat shows very normal text of this PDF:
Select it with the select tool, ctrl-c, and paste it into e.g. find dialog shows rectangles:

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