De-OCR?

True, but in this instance, the monochrome image is converted to JPEG. When the JPEG is compressed to make the file size reasonable, then there is definitely loss in quality.

Yep, just trying to find the best way to automate it. And make it teachable so my wife can do it too. I had a sample workflow using Acrobat 8 above. It doesn’t seem that ABBYY is Applescriptable.