PDF conversion into xml sometimes scrambles text

I've been using the "save as" function in Acrobat Pro 9 to convert PDF documents into xml text transcripts, but all too often that text comes out scrambled: instead of working within the column divisions on the page, the Acrobat conversion process will read across the page, braiding together, line by line, text that appears on the same level in two and sometimes three adjacent columns. Has anyone else experienced this, and is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening?

IAC methods are the COM/.NET methods on Windows.
a) You can get the document metadata and the size of each page but not tagged status from IAC. Plugins can get all the info.
b) There is NO WAY to get the password for an encrypted document (using ANY API), since the password is never stored in the PDF itself.
c-e can only be obtained using plugin APIs
f can be obtained using any API - IAC or plugin.
g is only available for plugins.
I don't understand h - do you just mean the version in the document or an actual REAL usage value?

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