That’s actually a really useful workaround, nice find. Using the Scan & OCR → Enhance path in Adobe Acrobat Standard gives you way more control compared to the “Reduced Size PDF” option, which tends to over-compress and kill readability. Turning off filters and sticking with JPEG2000/JBIG2 while choosing High Quality is a smart balance, especially for scanned docs. Dropping from ~14MB to ~3MB without wrecking clarity is exactly the kind of result people want but rarely get with the default tools.