"Unsupported Color Space" error trying to open b/w PDF in PS

This glitch has occured periodically in every version of PS I've ever used. I'm sick of getting it. Let me emphasize" I'm working with a b/w all-text image scanned into a PDF using the "text" setting on my scanner. In past attempts with Adobe tech support to get this fixed, it ends up having something to do with a glitch in PS programming, which gets fixed after an hour and a half of being treated like an airhead by the support tech and finally going into the secret settings area of PS and fixing it.

I did some tests on that image (Color Space: Indexed Device Gray) in Acrobat Pro.
If you want to open it in PhotoShop you could convert the whole PDF to RGB.
There is a Single Fix Up in the Preflight section of Acrobat Pro for this.
See screen shot of Acrobat Pro 9 here (in X or XI this feature is also available):
After using that fix up and saving the PDF to a new name, the TouchUp Object tool can use PhotoShop to open the image as an Indexed 8Bit Channel image in PhotoShop.
You can now convert  to Grayscale in PhotoShop if you want…
Uwe
Message was edited by: Laubender (some typos)

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