Data merge into a PDF

Can you have a data merge that will allow 1 designed PDF to be automatically updated with names addresses and signatures?
The name and address is a .csv file and the signature is a .jpg
Any help would be great

will this work if the PDF pages are already created?
we are going to be provided about 300 already made PDF pages in which I need to do something like , put JSP or Java tags in a form field that will fill the form field with data that the tag queries for....

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