PDF to XML

Hi All..
I could see many posts regarding XML to PDF conversion.
I just want to know if there is any command line tool available to convert PDF to XML
(I can find many tools but they are of GUI. I am searching for a command line tool so that I can invoke it like c:>TOOL <source PDF file> <destination XML file>)
Thanks in advance,
Sasi

I cannot imagine that there is a free tool which converts pdf - file to xml - file, because adobe requires an expensvie lincence for using their pdf api to read pdf files. Therefore you will find only commerical products which makes that!
Or do somebody know some tools?

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