Unable to highlight text in my PDF files

Iam unable to highlight text in my PDF files ,The tool shows in the toolbar and  i am able to select it .But when i go to the related text which i wish to highlight ,nothing happens . kindly advise, what am i doing wrong. The comment tool is working fine , and i am able to put text comments in the box.But i need to highlight certain text also.
.I am using Adobe reader version 10.1. I reinstalled the program two times but still the highlight tool does not works .

May be that the PDF files doesn't contain any text. What did you get when you use File > Save As > Text...

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