SEO - how do search engines treat invisible text?

Hi,
I've created a website using Adobe Muse and to be able to include a lot of information in a small space, I've created an animated tabbed panel in Adobe Edge Animate.
I've started to go through the site to bump the SEO and I've realised that the text in the Edge animations are flattened - much like images. For search engines to recognise and use the text, I thought I could duplicate the text and position it behind the background image or turn the opacity to [0] so the user cannot see the text. Will search engines still recognise the text? And if it does am I damaging my site if they see it as spam or black hat tricks?
I've also split a lot of the headings up into letters so each one can be animated separately - would search engines read this as one word or a string of unattached letters? Again, I was thinking of creating a new text box with the word spelled out but with the opacity at [0]. Is this the best thing to do or are there better ways of doing this?
Thanks

No point in just slapping the text into a noscript tag. If there is no active JavaScript with matching content it is considered out of bounds just as well and search engines will not make anything of it. That being so, the answer is probably in your Edge file - you overdid it and instead of placing content natively in Muse using widgets crammed in everything there. So short of looking for fixes after the fact, you probably need to rethink your overall strategy and forego some fancy animations in favor of better searchability and user interaction.
Mylenium

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