PDFs are blank in Acrobat X

I have Acrobat Pro X - when I go to open a PDF, it appears blank with no text. Images show up, and I can see that there is text in the document when i open through Preview, but when I ope in Acrobat, it's not there. I had unchecked "enhanced security," which worked for a while, but now I am back to opening PDFs that appear blank.

Hi rs2studio,
If I understand correctly, this issue is occurring with multiple PDFs. Is that so?
Is it possible that the text those PDFs is image text (that is, the PDF was created from a scanned document)? If so, please choose Acrobat > Preferences (Mac OS) or File > Preferences (Windows), and make sure that Show Large Images is selected in the Page Display Preferences.
Please let us know how it goes. We can dig deeper, if need be.
Best,
Sara

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