PDF to XML using saveAsXml.api ?

We have over 5K PDF documents that we need to parse information from. One way that has worked when doing it by hand is to use the Export as XML from an open PDF document. Is there a way to use the saveAsXML api from java or coldfusion or any other language? I have tried using the PDFbox jar file but it doesn't produce the same quality XML as saveAsXML. Any help would be appreciated.

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