Automate saving a PDF as Word in Acrobat X

I'm searching through all the api docs and can't find anything that would allow me to open an existing PDF and save it as a Word document. I have thousands of PDF's to convert and need to write some code to automate the process. We receive a few hundred new PDF's each day and don't want to have someone manually opening up Acrobat Pro and doing the conversion. Is there any way to do this?
Our solution would preferably be written in C# using VS2010.
Thanks!

Before you start coding, you should read the Acrobat EULA VERY carefully
as the use of Acrobat in a fully automated fashion for multiple users is
not necessarily permitted.

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