How to determine (in bulk) whether a document has OCR text and what reader versions are supported?

Help!
I've inherited a task which has spanned many years and which was not well thought out over the transitions. At least three project teams have scanned and stored tens of thousands of documents to PDF. What was discovered subsequently was that the project teams did not apply a uniform standard for which versions of Adobe would be supported in each PDF, and that not all documents appear to have been OCR'ed as part of the scan process.
This has resulted in two major problems. First, PDFs which support all Reader versions are bloated and consuming significant amounts of storage; second, the automated processing tools which depend upon the OCR text are failing once they pass the front and rear cover sheets (which do contain extractable text). I need to know if there is a way that PDFs can be bulk scanned to determine which Reader versions are supported (say 8.0 to current), and if the OCR'ed / extractable text is not just limited to the first few and last pages of each PDF.
I have been manually fixing individual files with Adobe Acrobat 9.0. I can force Adobe to re-OCR and save the files, but I would rather not have to re-process the existing bulk that we have unless absolutely necessary. If I could determine which ones need fixing and just processing those it will save man years of work.
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
Michael

What I meant by supporting a version of Reader is that I don't need the files to be fully backwards compatible all the way back to say the first few versions of Adobe Reader. (There are likely limitations on that much backwards compatibility, anyway.) One of the scanners that was used apparently was set for full backwards compatibility, to the extent possible, for every PDF that it generated. Some of those PDFs are huge, commonly 300-400MBs in size. If I open them in Acrobat 9.0, limit the backwards compatibility to Adobe Reader 8.0 and forward, then resave the file, the size is often significantly reduced.
As to how it is measured, there is something in the PDF itself that indicates a minimum version for Adobe Reader for compatibility purposes. When you select for compatibility in Acrobat during the save process I mentioned, you get to pick the version at which you want to stop -- so if you selected 8.0, it would be compatible with 8.0, 9.0, and so on.

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