you may want to mention this
to SEC webmaster and help establish my claim that
there is significant, unmet financial need for fulltext document search and structured documents along with custom search criteria implemented at home by nerd's using the SEC's API ( which they claim is a low priority).
Seriosuly, if you start a lettter writing campaign to decision makers, be sure to indicate that the small investor who happens to have any computer skills can mine SEC data and stock charts to look for statistical anomalies ( grant dates coinciding with price minima, sales coinciding with maxima, etc). Be sure to mention that correlation between various sources- patents, medical literature, etc- is essential to getting context and this requires providing an API for the use, not a fancy web interface that forces you to use a computer for manual operations.