I want to extract data from a PDF using Java

I would prefer to extract data from a PDF and convert it to XML. Is there an API that will convert a PDF to some Adobe format XML? Ideally I would like to add some JAR files to my classpath, similar to PDFBox. I don't want to install a bunch of server side componets or anything like that.
Thanks!

Thank you for the reply!
If I installed the server side components, how would a Java client invoke a service to export data from a PDF? RMI, Web Services?

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