PDF's missing random words

I'm a college student who uses Safari to do alot of online readings for classes. I've looked through many of these threads but haven't found anyone with this same problem.
At times when I'm using preview to look at pdf's, words will just randomly be missing. It's the strangest thing... Where the word should be, there's just a blank spot. It's only with certain pdf's and it's by no means a majority of the words, but it's incredibly frustrating and sometimes it causes problems.
I've found that I can copy and paste the sections into Word and the words will appear, but with some articles being more than 50 pages, this is hardly practical.
Any help would be much appreciated

I'm just guessing, but it seems Safari doesn't know how to 'handle' the word. Maybe the originator applied a 'style' to the word(i.e., italics, ligature) or copied and pasted the word from another document to the pdf picking up some hidden code or 'formatting' that are embedded in the document that Safari doesn't 'know' how to read. This is unusual and I've never run across it. Can you download the file to Preview and see if it's read there? Right click on the pdf or Control click to bring up contextual menu to download file. Or use Adobe Reader if Preview doesn't work because I think Safari uses Preview to read pdfs(not sure).
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