How do I make images of text searchable on a Mac?

I am downloading a lot of PDFs from the New York Times archives (c. 1855) for some historical research I'm doing.
I assume the Times has OCR'd their images of these old articles because the text is word-searchable online.
Here are my questions, in descending order of the elation they might evoke. (BTW, I'm on a Mac, running Leopard.)
1. Is the OCR text somehow embedded in the downloaded PDFs and how would I discover and retrieve it, using Acrobat Pro 9?
2. Would it be worth trying Acrobat's built-in OCR tools to make these images word-searchable? (Mid-19th century Times type is pretty wavy and clunky.)
3. Given that Macs can now word-search closed documents' body text, can I at least put key words in text box notes or stickies on these PDFs, to help me find important passages? (I've tried both text boxes and stickies but neither worked.)
Thanks.

For #1 — A PDF supports three OCR outputs. Searchable Image, Searchabel Image (Exact), or ClearScan. If an OCR output is with the NYT's PDFs I'd guess they are the first or the second. Either leaves a "layer" of hidden text.
To retrieve the hidden text you could use Acrobat's File > Export. Choose the output from the choices available.
For #2 — Sure, why not? Using a copy of a PDF give Searchable Image (Exact) a try.
For #3 — You could use Acrobat Pro's Commenting tools. For a "commented" PDF you can use the Comments List for viewing/sorting.
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