Contrary to the article, the pdf doesn't appear to be locked in any way. If you run the pdf through "pdftotext -layout", you get a very readable text file whic

Contrary to the article, the pdf doesn't appear to be locked in any way. If you run the pdf through "pdftotext -layout", you get a very readable text file which is probably easier to parse than any XML they'd come up with. (Probably easier to deal with than the HTML that Word produces.) If you want to extract metadata or break it into sections to load into your custom web app, it'd be a couple hours work with your favorite scripting language. (Anything with decent regular expression support.) (If you want boldface/italics, I'd recommend tweaking the backend of pdftotext.)