How to read a PDF from within PL/SQL?

we have a requirement like this: We have a Time Tracking and Project Monitoring System whose DB is a Oracle 10g R2. We want to automate our ''Meeting Minute'' processing.
-- The project lead will write minutes into a form PDF.
-- I.e. a PDF where people can type in information to fields.
-- The PDF will be e-mailed to the project manager.
-- Project manager will save the PDF in a HDD directory.
-- Then he will run a program.
-- Program will pickup all the PDFs in directory one-by-one.
-- For each PDF, the program should read the fields.
-- Read values will be inserted to the DB.
Now, my problem is, HOW ON EARTH TO READ A "PDF"???
One option is to CONVERT the PDF to XML and then read the XML. BUT, unfortunately after googling for over 4 hours I came up empty on converting PDF to XML.
How can we do this???
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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after googling for over 4 hours I came up empty on converting PDF to XML.
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Glad I'm not paying you by the hour! You might need to switch to decaf.
It only took a few seconds for me using 'convert pdf to xml'
Right there on the first page was a link on how to use Adobe Acrobat to do the conversion.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5806567_convert-xml-using-adobe-acrobat.html
So then you use 'adobe acrobat convert pdf to xml' and it's amazing - there are links to the adobe site. One of them is about an XMl Plug-in for Windows.
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=1209
And an adobe forum question about it
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/339814
Maybe try searching again after the caffeine wears off a little?
If it can be done with PDF Adobe has the tools to do it.

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