Best Practice - how to populate print & digital layout template

Greetings,
I'm new at this so not even sure what to put as the title. Let me know if I should update it to something clearer.
I need to create a small booklet that consists of personal profile pages. I imagine I can design a template layout in InDesign and then populate the fields with data from a form. Something like a mail merge in Word. Is this possible? Can I send out PDF forms to people and then use the forms to populate the InDesign template?
I would also like to have the data feed a separate layout for a digital booklet mobile app. What software would be able to do that?
Thanks in advance for any feedback and assistance.

[spacecowboy] wrote:
Greetings,
I'm new at this so not even sure what to put as the title. Let me know if I should update it to something clearer.
I need to create a small booklet that consists of personal profile pages. I imagine I can design a template layout in InDesign and then populate the fields with data from a form. Something like a mail merge in Word. Is this possible? Can I send out PDF forms to people and then use the forms to populate the InDesign template?
I would also like to have the data feed a separate layout for a digital booklet mobile app. What software would be able to do that?
Thanks in advance for any feedback and assistance.
You can design forms in Acrobat that have a submit button that sends the collected data to a receiving server where a script does the processing. You can also specify that the data is extracted and sent via email to a recipient. Search Google for terms like "acrobat retrieve data from pdf manage forms data spreadsheet" without quotes for details.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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