Can not copy text from a pdf file

https://sites.google.com/site/sharedacrobat/data/cannot_copy_text.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
I can not copy the table caption in the above pdf. If I do so, I will get some gibberish, such as %"/*&+%",-.%&1",/*%9&,*09%&
I'm wondering what happens to the pdf file. Is there a way to fix it so that I can copy the text?

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https://sites.google.com/site/sharedacrobat/data/cannot_copy_text.pdf? attredirects=0&d=1
I can not copy the table caption in the above pdf. If I do so, I will get some gibberish, such as %"/*&+%",-.%&1",/*%9&,*09%&
I'm wondering what happens to the pdf file. Is there a way to fix it so that I can copy the text?
Does anybody know what cause the problem and how to fix it? The current walkaround is to convert the pdf into image, then load the image into acrobat and perform OCR. But this is tedious and some information may be lost. I'm wondering if there is a better solution.

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