diff --git a/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc b/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
index 81bded8..10d8b5f 100644
--- a/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
+++ b/libqpdf/QPDFJob.cc
@@ -796,8 +796,6 @@ QPDFJob::doCheck(QPDF& pdf)
         // Disable compression of streams, since we only need to confirm we can decode them. This
         // avoids JPEG DCT -> Flate recompression of all images.
         w.setCompressStreams(false);
-        // Also disable recompression of Flate streams since are only checking.
-        w.setRecompressFlate(false);
         w.write();
 
         // Parse all content streams