Adobe Reader 9 cannot read text, thus can't search

Just six days ago I was able to search the text on a PDF doc. Starting today or maybe yesterday, I couldn't search the same document with those texts. And I couldn't search that same PDF document online which was where I downloaded it from and could use the search engine before. What is going on??? The Adobe Reader program is only seeing the doc as a picture. But I can search other documents that have highlightable text. HELP! I want to fix this search engine problem! Thanks, much appreciated!

I'm absolutely positive that I could search text on the PDF before. In fact, I did a lot of searching. Now I cannot do any searches. And yes, I checked the fonts thing and there is none. I'm completely boggled about this. And I used google to find the pdf and could search the PDF while opening it under google. Now, I can't.
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