Collecting Data From A Form

Hello,
I am interested in placing a PDF on the web where users can download the file, then once they have filled it in on their local machine, they can submit it to our servers as a completed PDF. Then once I have a collection of PDF's I want to be able to extract the data submitted and put that information into a database.
What is the best way to accomplish this? We do not have servers with CGI or other scripting languages installed to directly read the XML stream.
thanks,
mitch

If you want to populate a database on the server side, you will need the ability to do some server side scripting. PHP, ASP, dot net, Java, etc.

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[ Di Nov 16 15:54:44 CET 2010 ],ERROR,[Thread-14],com.cisco.nm.rmeng.inventory.ics.server.InvDataProcessor,448,ASA Fehler -193: Primärschlüssel für Tabelle 'PhysicalElement' ist nicht eindeutig
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