Online pdf reviewing

We are looking for online PDF reviewing solution. Could you help me to decide which of Adobe products are required to implement the application featured with:
-Web Application
-Allows concurrent review to any PDF file.
-Enables the PDF commenting before uploading PDF packages
-Comments added in Adobe Reader or Acrobat
-Comments should be extracted and inserted into Comments Database
Thanks

1] At the beginning of the article I say "This topic was originally produced for RH HTML X3 but has been revised for RH X5. Changes in RoboHelp 6 and 7 were minor so the article remains good for those versions. Some additional output options were added to RoboHelp 8 and I will be updating the article for those."
2] Where do I say links for PDFs don't format properly? Popups yes but I cannot see such a reference for PDFs.
3] The topics in your printed document will be whatever you have defined in the print layout. You can start with the TOC and add them in the print layout, as my article describes or you can define a separate TOC, that's how I would do it. I am not clear why that is unrealistic.
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