Interactive PDF button to export form data to separate PDF

Hi,
I'm creating a 10 page interactive PDF. One page of the PDF is a questionnaire which i've made using form fields.
I basically want the user to answer the questions in the form fields and then click a button on the page that will save that page (with the inputted data) to a separate one page PDF that they can save on their desktop for future reference.
Is this possible? My thinking is that it would be with javascript? Does anyone have an experience or thoughts on this.
My user base will just have Acrobat reader, but I have Acrobat pro to set up the interactive PDF along with indesign CC.
Thanks for your help
Ian

Not possible in Reader. You'll need to provide them with that one-page
questionnaire as a separate file. Reader can't extract pages from a a PDF
and create a new file.

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