Data from PDF  with  javascript

Looking for some code to get me started doing: 1) moving through subdirectories 2) extracting data from a PDF form to a text file (CSV)
We need to move through 100's of directories and extract PDF form data.
Fields are the same but files have different names; in all these files is a form page with the same field structure.
In other words; we keep track of jobs for hundreds of customers using a
pdf in hundreds of folders ( folder and file names reflect the customer name( I did not, BTW, design such a silly way of tracking jobs) )
Some sample code will save me hours or days, of course -

> but never in Java
There is no Java interface to Acrobat. Do you perhaps mean a LiveCycle server, as they can be extended with Java?
> Windows 2003 server box
Again, this makes me think of a LiveCycle server instead of Acrobat, since Acrobat is not licensed for server use.

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