Batch of pdf documents to drop rev into table

Hello;
It is frequent that I utilize large numbers of pdf documents with the engineering firm. On many occasions, I have 500-1000 drawings where I need to pull the revision from the sheet and place it into a table.
99.5% of the time it is a single character. It is 100% of the time A-Z or 0-9. No special characters. The space in which that rev is located within the PDF file differs sometimes, and normally just due to layout and size. Some drawings are 8.5x11, some 11x17 and some larger. It is nearly always in the lowest right hand box with REV written at the top of the box, sometimes a horizontal line (sometimes not) and the Character.
In some of our drawings (demo / tie point) that are built in powerpoint, I can extract the revision by finding the object that the revision is listed within, and extract the cell id next to the word 'revision', and the value of that cell is the rev number. I need to do the same with PDF.
I have built very easily the excel vba to pull all of the files / file names / paths of the pdf into a table. Is there a way that I can export to excel or open/review an object/extract and deposit that single character from each of the pdf into the excel table? Is there a method or procedure for scripting to look into the pdf document, look for an outlined area containing REV and a single character on the next line break?
Did what I ask make sense?
Example: I have 837 PDF documents saved in a folder. I just ran an excel macro to list them all. In the excel table I have Column A-E; titled as follows: FileName, Revision, FullFilePath, Size, Last Updated. 4 of these fill in just fine from the file meta data. I need the Revision column to fill in from data within each PDF.

seems to be just part of an image.
Example of PDF
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36294887/LD-E-26002.pdf
Excel Spreadsheet
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28914282/testbook.xls

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