Is it possible to autofil text fields in AI from a pdf?

I'm constantly retyping information from a PDF order form into an AI spec header. Is there a way to link the two?

Can you elaborate?
Is that form created in Acrobat? If so, what version of Acrobat. Which version of Illustrator?
Describe step by step what you're doing and what exactly you want to achieve

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