Exporting pdf's to text

I have Acrobat 8.0 Standard.
I can search for words... so the pdf's are not an image but were created from another program. I do not have access to the original files. I only have the pdf's.
When I export to text, html, word doc, rtf, etc, the text is "mostly" right. But there are many instances where characters are just in the wrong spot.
i.e., say the pdf has a couple of lines of text like this
District 24 District 205 District 216
389 .....
The corresponding export text looks like this:
istrict 24 Distict 25 District 215
Dr0389 ......
"Dr0389" is the problem. The "D" is from "District 24" the "r" is from "District 205" and the "0" is also from "District 205".
If I use the select icon and right arrow over the document. It moves from the first D, to the r, to the zero, and then to the number 389 on the next line.
Any ideas? or is it just the engine that converted the original document to pdf that has messed up?
Thanks!

I know PDFs are not intended to be edited, but sometimes you have no choice, and it isn't all that rare. Opening in Illustrator can work after a fashion, but that's no easy trick.
We produce all our PDF newsletters now using InDesign, but for a few years they were made using Quark, and those original Quark files are long gone - all that remains is the PDFs. We are adding these old issues to a searchable database, so I need to add XML tags to all the stories. I haven't figured out a way to do that in the PDF, so I'm trying to put it back into some sort of form where tagging is possible. The pages in these documents are fairly highly designed - text in three columns, pull quotes in boxes centered on the page overlapping all three columns, graphics, etc. - so selecting the text from a whole story is challenging, to say the least. But while labor intensive, it is possible to copy the text, paste into a Word document, then manually kill all the unwanted stuff that came along with the Copy and use a macro of several Find/Replace routines to get rid of all the spurious paragraph returns.
I investigated a promising solution offered by Recosoft (www.recosoft.com) called, appropriately, PDF2ID. It lets you set up parameters, and auto-converts a PDF to a fully-formatted ID file. They offer a somewhat free demo that's both brain-dead (after the first page, the text in the rest of the document is replaced by x's) and time limited. It does a good job of conversion, though. Multiple-column type is rendered with each column as a separate story, so it has to be re-threaded. And it's fairly expensive at $249. But it might be worth a look if you need to do a lot of this.
I'm proceeding with my labor intensive approach. I just have to do about 30 issues, each of which I can convert to taggable Word docs in about a half hour. Very tedious, so I'm doing one a day. Then I'm done.

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