Pdf and saving completed forms locally

I have been trying to create a pdf form that we can send to our users and they can fill out, save a copy, and email back to us for processing. Eventually this will be a lot more automated but for now that is my goal. I have created a form with both itext and BFO and neither seem to have the ability to enable adobe reader to save a completed copy of a form. I am wondering if anyone else has run into this and what there solution was. Thanks.

DrClap you hit the nail on the head. After doing a lot of research I have found that adobe actually has a pdf sdk, an acrobat sdk, and a product called live cycle that one or all may give me the functionality I need. Now I am just trying to figure out which one will do it at the most reasonable price.
Sabre, I am going to make a pdf that looks like a spread sheet and gives them an option to enter a price into one field.
Being that 99% of our customers are not going to have acrobat or have any idea how to actually go about changing a pdf document, security through obscurity works well for us in this situation as we are not really concerned about them changing info beyond the fact that we will have some issues processing it. At that point we will deal with that on a per case basis. I just don't want to give them an excel spread sheet and say here have fun as we have done that before and it is a nightmare like DrClap said.
As for the requirements in my original post I stated that I need to make a form that users can fill out, save, and then send back to us for processing. And this will accomplish what I am trying to do if I can make it work so I guess I don't understand your remark about the requirement and solution being flawed.
Thanks for the input guys.

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