Difficulty copying PDF text to Excel doc

Copying the text in some Adobe Reader documents results in non-standard characters when pasted in Excel document.  In other Adobe Reader documents the text copies and pastes correctly.  I have checked the Adobe Reader preferences and document properties (Security) and found no differences between documents that support text copying correctly and those that do not (result in non-standard characters).  Please indicate how I might resolve this problem.

Some documents are like this. It happens when they are made. There is no resolution.

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