Does Adobe Reader have a "recognize text" tool?

Does Adobe Reader have a "recognize text" tool, or do I have to buy a version to get this feature? What is the least expensive version that offers this feature? My goal to have PDF version text documents that can be read by a text to speech application, like EZ PDF Reader.

Definitely not in Reader. I believe (though cannot personally confirm) that Acrobat Standard has it.
Bear in mind that you need good quality originals, well scanned, to get any kind of decent result. Computers are way worse at this than humans.
Bear in mind too that Recognise Text is only applicable to scanned documents NOT those made from Word or whatever. So if you are making the documents, it is rarely relevant.

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