displaying first few pages of a pdf on a page = duplicate content?

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I am embedding scribd pdfs on my website. These are exam papers pdf which are available on other websites.

As it is scribd is an embed/iframe, I think google considers my page as being empty with no content; google does see iframe content right?

So I decided to display the first pages of the pdf as text on the page for google. Then, for user experience, i hide the text and replace it with the scribd embed code using javascript.

I have 2 worries about this method. Firstly, i am displaying the first pages of the pdf and the latter may be hosted on other websites, will this be considered as duplicate content.

Secondly, I am hiding the content and replacing it with the scribd embed with javascript; is it considered bad by google?

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