Acrobat XI Pro - Eporting PDF v1.7 to PDF 1.3

I have documents that were created in Acrobat 4.0 (PDF v 1.3). I need to open them in my current version of Acrobat XI, and do OCR on them, then re-save them back to PDF v 1.3. They MUST remain PDF v 1.3 (Acrobat 4 compatible).
If I open a PDF, do the OCR, there are no options to save as an earlier PDF version unless I choose Optimizer. If I choose Optimier, it must first save the original document before proceeding to the optimization. That saving of the original file changes the original to the new PDF version (1.7).
My question is, can I set the default PDF version for saving documents to v1.3 (compatible with Acrobat 4) as a default? I have thousands of documents, and the workaround is very messy - creating backups of the originals before proceeding to processing.
In other words, I would like to open up a v1.3, edit it, and then save it as a 1.3 in a straightforward fasion. Is this possible with Acrobat XI?
Thanks in advance.

Not possible.

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