Fillable PDF Interaction

I have a user request to have our APEX application present a fillable PDF form to the user with some of the fields pre-populated from the database, have the user complete the form and submit the changes to the database.
I have created the fillable PDF with Adobe Pro but I'm not sure how to interact with it via APEX. Has anyone had experience with this and can point me in the right direction?
Thanks

Hi Dave,
I totally understand your quandry. All the forum posts seem to be about PDF output+ and what we need is PDF input! And Apex covers webservices as a client, but what about hosting the service? At SFFD we're trying to achieve something similar to what you describe. Mind you: we're developing the pdf forms ourselves; don't know if you are too. The path we're currently exploring is to use a pdf form button to http POST the xml data of the form to the database. Oracle Streams docs part VI (chapter 17) "Internet Access to Oracle Streams AQ" seems to point the way to submitting SOAP requests to the database. Now I'm trying to figure out that architecture's moving parts. We might otherwise try to have the form ftp the xml to an XML DB repository. do you, *(or anyone!)*, have any other leads on sucking pdf form data into the db?
Derek
SFFD
P.S. Also, we have the added convenience of a sequestered network, so security is not the same level issue for us that it is for most. And what's up with those reponses that atempt to critique your requirements? These type responses are not at all helpful, people. We don't create our requirements, we attempt to meet them.
UPDATE: IXNAY on the OAPSAY (for us at least). Looks like Internet access to oracle streams requires a J2EE server like oracle application server (@ $50k/cpu/yr ?) to implement the aqxmlSERVLET - which we don't have none of. Maybe we can route xml to XMLDB repository using existing IIS. Chapter 15 of XML DB manual indicates: ODP.NET supports XML natively in the database, through Oracle XML DB. ODP.NET XML support includes the following features:
■ Stores XML data natively in Oracle Database as XMLTypeEdited by: derek on Apr 24, 2009 2:41 PM

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