Programatically extract information from PDF

I am very green to Adobe/Java programming, so this is just a plausibility question not really a how to question. Is it possible to take text from a PDF document that isn't a form? I have heard about database integration with forms but what if the document doesn't have recoginzed fields?
The department of labor has an online form that prints to PDF. Much of the information that is typed there must be re-typed over and over again in communications with employers. I'm wondering if we could take the information from the PDF and put it in a database to be merged in our office-created forms.
Sorry if my question is totally out there and thanks for any help.

I am scadoosh, but not iluvtofly. The information is in the same place in the forms. I could send the form if that is helpful. It is a form that we have to fill and submit online. We were hoping we could implement a solution where we could either extract information from the form that has been "printed to pdf" or the opposite, where we would fill in a database and programmatically fill the form.
When you say an Adobe LiveCycle product, what is that? Is it software or hardware? Would we have to purchase something in addition to Adobe Acrobat? What do we need to implement such a solution?
Are there Adobe people who design custom products? Or could we get training somewhere on how to implement an Adobe LiveCycle solution. If there are custom designers, could they implement a solution so that if the government moved fields a little bit, we could adjust the LiveCycle solution to fit the new form.
Thanks!

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