i want to extract all the xml data that is at the bottom of all pdf's (it will be only ones i create so i know that information will be there) the xml is like this <dc:title> <rdf:Alt> <rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">{*TITLE*}</rdf:li> </rdf:Alt> </dc:title> <dc:creator> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li>{*AUTHOR*}</rdf:li> </rdf:Seq> </dc:creator> thats an extract of it, the text in the {**} is the information i want to extract i belive this can be done with regexp's, how ever if theres a fast way i would like to know this information on the pdf can be found in the last couple of lines of a .pdf document, to see this open it up in notepad and scroll to the bottom any help would be nice thanks -- ~Philip Pryce