Lexmark printer/scanner and Image capture to PDF

I am trying to use a x5250 Lexmark printer/scanner to scan with image capture.
The printer installs fine and gets recognized. And I have the latest drivers from lexmark
so when I use the scanner with Image Capture, it scans fine, I can save it as jpg, png, etc.
The only one that gives me problems is when I try to save it as a PDF. It makes the PDF, but when I try to open it with Preview, it says unrecognized file format or corrupt.
I then tried to open it on a linux machine (ubuntu) and it opens fine.
Any ideas?

Update on this: Image Capture still creates corrupt PDF, but it is a problem with Image Capture. VueScan scans to PDF just fine.

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