Save forms WITH filled in info

Hi there,
The company I work requested me to create forms to be sent to their customers for them to fill in.
As you know, by default, the Reader doesn't allow one to save the info they fill in.
Obviously, we can require from all our customers to by add-ons or Standard or Pro versions of Acrobat.
Surely there must be a way to recover the info has filled in with the Reader, but how?
Hope someone can help me...
Thanks in advance!!

Hi!
I was just about to post that I had found the solution (which matches yours).
Thanks anyway!

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