Merging/filling pdf form file with xml data

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Hello,

Let's say I have a pdf form file available at website which is filled by the users and submitted to the server. On the server side (Asp.Net) I would like to merge the data that I receive in xml format with the empty pdf form that was filled and save it.

As I have found there are several possible ways of doing it:

Using pdf form created by adobe acrobat and filling it with itextsharp.
Using pdf form created by adobe acrobat and filling it with FDF Toolkit .net (which seems to be using itextsharp internally)
Usd pdfkt to fill the form.
Use pdf form file created with adobe livecycle and merge the data by using Form Data Integration Service

As I have no experience with this kind of task can you advise which option would be better/easier and give some additional tips?

Thank you in advance.

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