[AS] Saving PDF as text

Hi everyone,
I'm updating an applescript script that worked in OS X 10.4 and Acrobat 8 but now doesn't on OS X 10.6 and Acrobat 9.
The place it's hanging is this:
save front document to file theTxtPath using conversion "com.adobe.acrobat.accesstext"
I get an error that the document doesn't understand the save message.
I'm not familiar with scripting Acrobat as I mostly script InDesign but I need to update this script (that someone else wrote) now that we've updated our software and operating system.
As part of a bigger script, I need to save the PDF to a text file then close the PDF.
Thanks!

A scanned document is just a big picture - there is no text unless you
do OCR.
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