An Acrobat solution would have to be tailored to the individual document and would presumably be predicated upon the PDF having fillable fields (which you could presumably add before automating it). That, in turn presupposes the PDF has no protection - something commonly added to prevent alteration of forms intended for manual completion. For PDF automation specifics, you would do best to ask in an Adobe forum. Also, have you asked the Govt. Depts concerned for versions of the forms you could automate?

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