Posting Filled Forms Online?

Hi,
I'm fairly new to PDF creation, but what I would like to do is post a fillable form online(web server), allow the users to fill out the form, click a submit button, and post the completed form back online with its own unique URL for others to view. Is this possible? If so, any guidance in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks

i think its pretty obnoxious that your favorite bulletin board doesnt allow for email updates (blogger), or create an app for you to do so (countless photo apps in app store).
i also think its pretty obnoxious that my phone doesnt make my coffee in the morning or drive me around. i mean, i paid $500 for it, it should at least be able to do basic things like that.
and in case its not coming through loud and clear, </sarcasm>

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It's possible. In order for it to work with Reader, the document has to be Reader-enabled, either with Acrobat or LiveCycle Reader Extensions. If using Acrobat, you are limited by the Acrobat License Agreement to using data from no more than 500 instances of a form (including hard copies) that has been returned. LiveCycle Reader Extensions is somewhat expensive and requires that you install it on a server that you set up. Note that you cannot Reader-enable the form for a client using your licensed copy of Acrobat. The client will have to do this himself using his licensed copy. This is another licensing restriction.
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Forgive the length of this post, but I feel it necessary to give a little background information into our problem.
We were looking for a simple solution to a seemingly simple problem: Host ~15 safety forms online for field technicians (electricians) to fill out via their netbooks and submit to some sort of repository for archiving with the ability for the technicians to reopen the forms and make additions over the course of the job / week as well as firing an email off to our H&S rep per form submitted.
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This all seems awfully expensive for a solution to host a dozen or so forms and archive the submissions in one place where they can be re-opened and added to.
I don't undestand why it's so prohibitively expensive to submit dynamic PDF forms as PDF vs submitting static PDF forms as PDF, which can be done with Acrobat Pro all by itself at ~$500.

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And once it is online, is the best way for users to send back completed forms by filling in the form and sending as a separate pdf or use the email/submit button option for a form?
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You don't need to use any LiveCycle products to create a PDF form and place it on a web server so it can be accessed. Acrobat 7 does not, however, allow you to Reader-enable a form so that Reader users can fill it in and save it. That feature was added with Acrobat 8 Pro, and is also available with Acrobat 9 and 10.
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Hi,
>> I'd like to create a link to the form to share on my website and via email in order for my clients to fill the form out online. Is this possible?
For this workflow, no. You could upload the PDF form to your website (you clients will download it and fill+submit) or send the PDF form via email to your clients.
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Thanks Dave.
I'm aware that my 6.0 acrobat is way out of date. But I thought I created a fillable form a few years ago using it. But in that case it probably was a PDF going into the process, not a scanned form. Also, I was using vista at the time and now have win 7/64bit.
I'll try the OCR routine but your post suggests what I suspected, that I can't get to where I'm going from here.
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:27:21 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Scan and fill form using Acrobat 6.0
    Re: Scan and fill form using Acrobat 6.0
    created by CtDave in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs - View the full discussion
As Acrobat 6 went out of support / obsolete many years ago you'll want to be sure the OS is compatible and the scanner software is compatible.
Use Acrobat's create PDF from scanner feature (review the Help file if needed, the Help PDF was installed when Acrobat 6 was installed).
So, you'll now have that PDF.
But, it is not yet a form PDF.
The scanner output is an image so you have an image / a picture as the PDF page content.
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The reason this form is not meant to be printed is that we have replaced the 'Signature' fields from the original form with checkboxes that the user must check to confirm they have 'signed' the document. If they are to print/fax/whatever the document, they should use the original form, not this one. And I am still trying to explain to them that this would be better served with an HTML web form, but I fear I am losing that battle.
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