Highliting text in adobe reader

Hi.Am using Adobe Reader XI ,when I try to highlight text it only highlights a potion of the words and leaves the rest unhighlighted.What could be causing that?And please how can I fix it ?

This is typically the result of an bad OCR (Text Recognition). There's nothing you can do about it in Reader, though.

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    email [email protected]

    Thanks. The PDF file was made from a web site article and I guess this is the same as scanned as I cannot highlight.  The cursor changes but cannot highlight what I want.
    I was able to add text and I did this in Red and will ask the VA to read under the sections marked in Red.
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          From: ~graffiti <[email protected]>
    To: vernon pobang <[email protected]>
    Sent: Tuesday, October 7, 2014 11:57 AM
    Subject:  How to highlight text with Adobe Reader XI?
    How to highlight text with Adobe Reader XI?
    created by ~graffiti in Adobe Reader - View the full discussionUse the highlight tool under Comment>Annotations. This will only work if the pdf isn't a scanned image. If that is the case, there is no text to highlight. Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at https://forums.adobe.com/message/6800192#6800192 Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page:  To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at . In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.  Start a new discussion in Adobe Reader by email or at Adobe Community For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416458?tstart=0.

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