ClearScan OCR in Acrobat 9 deletes portions of text

I am experimenting with book scanning using a digital camera and various software including Acrobat 9. I discovered that in some cases, when I perform OCR with ClearScan, apparently random portions of the text in the scanned PDF image are deleted. Sample1.jpg shows a page before ClearScan OCR, and Sample2.jpg shows it after. As you can see some of the text has been deleted. How could this happen? And, how can it be prevented?

I'm having the same issue on a document I have a scan of and am trying to convert to a ClearScan pdf. I have found a workaround to the problem, which involves selecting "Optimize Scanned PDF" and using the default setting with the dial set to "high quality" before performing the OCR. This seems to stop chunks of words from dissappearing (at least I haven't found any cases), but it has the horrible consequence of dramatically increasing the file size when performing OCR with ClearScan. In a small file this may not matter much, but in my case it makes a 10MB pdf increase to 70MB.
Can anyone confirm if this also happens on Acrobat X?
From what I can tell, there are no preferences to control the OCR besides the downsampling. Specifically, I would really appreciate it if anyone knew a way to reduce the size of the fonts that are generated by the ClearScan OCR as they account for over 95% of the size of the file.

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