Is there a program to extract email addresses from a searchable pdf?

Is there a program that will extract email addresses from a searchable pdf?
I scanned a 75 page excel spreadsheet and used OCR to create a searchable pdf. I've verified that the OCR did work, the email address are searchable, but I need a way to extract them from the pdf so that I can add them to an email list database. There is other data in the spreadsheets that is not needed and it is making it impossible to just copy and paste. Does anybody know if there is a program available that works on the mac platform for this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Nate

Nate B- wrote:
Is there a program that will extract email addresses from a searchable pdf?
I scanned a 75 page excel spreadsheet and used OCR to create a searchable pdf. I've verified that the OCR did work, the email address are searchable, but I need a way to extract them from the pdf so that I can add them to an email list database. There is other data in the spreadsheets that is not needed and it is making it impossible to just copy and paste. Does anybody know if there is a program available that works on the mac platform for this. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Nate
Nate,
You might want to repost this in the Unix forum, or one of the scripts forums here:
AppleScripts: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
Unix: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735
Automator: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1261

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