Acrobat/PDF interactive forms are a unique technology, correct?

I was talking to a potential customer and they mentioned they have a system that:

(1) accept scanned forms and places them on the screen in a WYSIWYG mode.

(2) gives the user the ability to interact (fill, have spreadsheet calculations, etc.) with such forms.

My doubt was triggered when the person told me that his system does NOT rely on Acrobat or PDF. They could not give me more details.

I guess it's the PDF fan in me, but I have worked under the assumption that a system such as that described above does not exist, period. There may be a few mini - me technology roughly trying to imitate the monumental work that Adobe did.

I guess that my task is to find what technologies approach distance of Acrobat Forms.

Related: Microsoft was not developing their own "Acrobat-killer '? (LOL) Progress - or lack Traoré - how they reached?

-TIA,

-RFH

PS: Yes, I realize that Adobe itself has its own AcroForms grown and based on the XML newfangled. For the purpose of my question, however, they are the same.

It may be Microsoft Office InfoPath.

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