How to Read a PDF File?

Hi,
I want to do something pretty basic: open a PDF file and
programmatically process its contents. Fundamentally, I would
like to
just have something that can get the text and do readLine and
return a
string for each line of text.
I searched everywhere for something that can do this. Just
reading a
PDF in raw will not work b/c it contains a good deal of
binary.
AlivePDF
http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/
appears to only be able to
create new PDF files.
The Core AS3 libraries appear to only be able to display PDF
content
in a browser:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=PDF_1.html
Is there anything out there that can do this, or am I just
going to
have to write my own?
Thanks in advance,
Davis

Thanks for the info. I'm pretty new to AS/Flex, etc.
Incidentally, I'm looking to build an application using Flex, and a
good portion of it I've already written in Java. I actually have
this code done as a java library. What I'd really like to do is
just have the Flex App call that. Now, I know you can call out to
Java using RemoteObject, HTTP, WebService, etc, but the target for
this app is more likely to be Air -- i.e. a local desktop
application. As such, I don't really want to require a user to run
a J2EE web container locally just to call into a Java library.
So far, that is the only way I can figure out how to
communicate between AS and Java. The alchemy thing is what I'm
looking for -- but as a Java version. I don't really want to port
my code to C/C++ now, and then use the alchemy bridge. I'd either
port it to AS directly or use some bridge to Java.
As a Flex newbie -- can anyone tell me if there is an easier
way to integrate with Java code that doesn't require a web
container?
Thanks!
Davis

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