pdf to xml or to string in c#

I need to extract data from pdf files. I'm using .NET
I've been pouring over the web to find a way to do this. This is a case where the web is working against me. Putting data into pdf is easy and there's about a gazillion people posting how to do that. That makes it really hard to find how to do the opposite - get data out of pdf.
Ideally, I'd like to convert pdf into xml. Failing that, I'd like to read the text out of it into a string or stream.
I'd love to do it without using a COM component or some buggy open source product (I'm not anti-open source, but we all know there's a lot of half-baked open source software out there).
Is it possible?

Your best bet is to find something that can spit it out into some type of format for you, and you can work from there to decipher it. I did a quick google on "c# parse pdf" and found a few examples:
http://naspinski.net/post/ParsingReading-a-PDF-file-with-C-and-AspNet-to-text.aspx

Looks like it uses some type of library to get it into text format.

Hey bnewman,

I hear you on the open source stuff, as you are risking more chances of bugs, however in this case, I do believe that's the way to go. Look into the following open source components:

iTextSharp
activePDF Server
PDF4NET
PDFlib + PDI
TallPDF.NET 3.0

Now, some of these you actually have to pay for, but I think if you just use one of the free components (iTextSharp is free I think), you should be fine. Just do some good testing, that's all.

Mike