Extract highlighted text in PDF

Hi,
I want to write a tool which can extract highlighted text from the pdf and export the text into another pdf file. Can somebody give me directions how to do that.
if you think some tool already has that capacity, please let me know. Most of the tool I know just extract the summary like the location of the highlighted portion but not the actual text associated with it.
reards,
Avesh

Hi,
The question relating to extract text from pdf file is beyond the scope of c# forum , please try to refer to:
http://www.adobe.com/support/acrobat/
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