Extracting XML from Pdf form

There is an industry standard pdf form with an underlying XML schema which can be opened in Adobe reader.
The form has a custom button on Page 2  called "export" which can be manually clicked to export the XML file.
We will have hundreds of these forms. How would I automate the extraction of this XML document?
I would prefer to just write a simple script and extract out the xml to a file folder
Thanks for your help.

Thanks Patrick.
We are thinking about using a third party native Java library to do this (http://www.qoppa.com/pdffields/jpfindex.html). I was hoping we could use acrobat reader, since everyone has it!
Here are a few more things.
1. We are an Software Vendor that sells our solutions - our software solutions need to extract the xml from pdf. We have a java based program that parses this xml and does stuff with it.
2. Obviously, we would need to be able to redistribute whatever solution we use to extract the xml from pdf.
3. Can Acrobat Professional batch mode be executed from Java?
4.. If so, Instead of distributing a full blown Acrobat Professional or requiring customers to buy it,  is there a library that Adobe provides that we could repackage and ewdistribute? If so, can you send me some pointers on where I could find what those libraries would be and how much would they cost for each distribution we do.
5. If no, are you familiar with qoppa or do you have recommendations on any other third party libary for Java?
Thanks a bunch!

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