Batch conversion from pdf to Word

How do I create an action or batch processing step that will convert a large number of pdf files to Word?
I can convert a large number of files TO pdf, but it seems like you can't easily export pdf to Word. I tried downloading one of the actions on the Adobe web site that claimed to do this, but it says the file is corrupt.
I have 15,000 pdfs in a directory and I want to convert them to Word (they have already been OCR'ed using the batch mode).
Surely there is a straightforward way to do this?
BTW: I apologize if this is the wrong community, but I couldn't find a better place to post this question.

Dear Gilad D,
Thanks very much. I can make this work. This is a big help.
What I really would have liked is a command line tool on the Mac, like textutil, that allows this:
pdf2word in_file.pdf out_file.pdf
It is amazing how hard it is to do such simple command line things in this era of GUIs. For those of us who operate on large piles of data, command line interfaces are indispensable.
MVP: You are correct. Even Apple's Automator seems to choke when you give it too many files.
The only drawback of this approach is that the Action doesn't seem to descend the directory tree (like selecting files from finder will let you do). The reason I actually need a command line tool is that the pdf files are scattered about a file system with other pdfs that I don't want to convert. However, I can script around this.
Thanks very much!!!

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