.pdf data extractor

Problem:
We have 1200 utility invoices in one .pdf doc. Each invoice has a different service address and company name on the bill, however, the address information is listed in the same spot/location on the .pdf page.
Does anyone know of a good program that can record a pattern and extract/select the address information for each document automatically? I am aware there are programs out there for extracting web based information but they are running close to $1,000. I am just looking for .pdf extracting program.
We then will be taking the information and using it in excel.
Thank you all for your help!
-Vince

Assuming these are scans, then not with Adobe software. Acrobat can return the "Nth" word on a page but there's no way to get an arbitrary block of text inside a region of a page, and the logical word order in a scanned document will be all over the place.
Data extraction from scanned documents is a very specialist task, hence the high price tags for the (few) vendors whose software can handle it. You pay the price or hire someone to type it all in manually - there's no third option.

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