Extracting highlighted text WITHOUT additional rubbish

Hi
I have Acrobat 8 standard and I wish to extract (either into word or pdf) my highlighted sentences and along with sticky notes comments WITHOUT the date, authors name or subject. I can easily extract this information with all these details. I have looked at the Summarize Comments' options, but it does not let me remove the author, subject or date. All I want is the comments printed in a list format nothing else.
Is this possible?
Cheers

You can make your one PDF report or placing the comments context in the JavaScirpt console and include only the annotation properties that you want.

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The question relating to extract text from pdf file is beyond the scope of c# forum , please try to refer to:
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