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Adobe Acrobat
3,214 Reviews and Ratings
What is Adobe Acrobat?
Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of where to create, edit, convert, and share PDF files all from within Microsoft Teams – as part of Acrobat integrations with Microsoft 365 apps.
Who Buys & Uses Adobe Acrobat
#1 most frequent
Small Businesses
40.9%19,387 installations of 47,457
“I review documents, e-signatures, edit PDFs files, and convert image to pdf.”
#2 most frequent
Mid-sized Companies
27.6%13,091 installations of 47,457
“Editing or updating existing documents within the organization to keep up with most current versions.”
#3 most frequent
Enterprises
15.2%7,200 installations of 47,457
“Edit documents”
Pros
- Seamless editing and modification of PDF content (text, forms, formatting)
- Efficient and streamlined eSignature functionality for various documents
- Robust document security features, including encryption and password protection
Cons
- Limitations and difficulties with advanced PDF editing, especially for restricted files
- User interface can be unintuitive or challenging to navigate after updates
- Issues with matching fonts or manipulating images and text boxes effectively
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The Gold Standard for Document Management Editing and E-Signatures
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The 12 primary users represent our core Human Resources, Payroll, and Finance operations teams. Within this group, HR managers use the platform to oversee employee lifecycle events, handle benefits administration, and process new-hire onboarding. The payroll specialists and finance staff manage bi-weekly payroll runs, direct deposits, tax compliance, and general ledger reporting. Additionally, a couple of operational team leads use administrative access to approve timesheets, track attendance, and monitor departmental PTO accruals.
Cons
- The 12 primary users represent our core Human Resources, Payroll, and Finance operations teams. Within this group, HR managers use the platform to oversee employee lifecycle events, handle benefits administration, and process new-hire onboarding. The payroll specialists and finance staff manage bi-weekly payroll runs, direct deposits, tax compliance, and general ledger reporting. Additionally, a couple of operational team leads use administrative access to approve timesheets, track attendance, and monitor departmental PTO accruals.
- The 12 primary users represent our core Human Resources, Payroll, and Finance operations teams. Within this group, HR managers use the platform to oversee employee lifecycle events, handle benefits administration, and process new-hire onboarding. The payroll specialists and finance staff manage bi-weekly payroll runs, direct deposits, tax compliance, and general ledger reporting. Additionally, a couple of operational team leads use administrative access to approve timesheets, track attendance, and monitor departmental PTO accruals.
- The 12 primary users represent our core Human Resources, Payroll, and Finance operations teams. Within this group, HR managers use the platform to oversee employee lifecycle events, handle benefits administration, and process new-hire onboarding. The payroll specialists and finance staff manage bi-weekly payroll runs, direct deposits, tax compliance, and general ledger reporting. Additionally, a couple of operational team leads use administrative access to approve timesheets, track attendance, and monitor departmental PTO accruals.
Adobe Acrobat is still the Gold Standard in the PDF market
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have used Adobe Acrobat for many years for document review, edits, and presentations. Adobe Acrobat has also been a critical for our oganizations signing and workflow of documents from contracts & proposals, to workflow. Keeping our documents secure private have also been paramount when using the Adobe suite of solutions.
Pros
- Exporting individual and mult-page options
- Importing of a variety of document types
- OCR conversion of Word or image documents to recognize and search text
- Digital signatures with date/time stamps
- signature files to include your own natural signature
- redaction tools for better privacy
Cons
- fonts updates to match an imported document
- style formatting sometimes does not work properly
- smarter ai tools to read documents that many not appear "right to left"
- export and importing to more data types
Return on Investment
- reduction of redundant tasks can be handled through Adobe Acrobat
- esignatures save a significant amount of time when finalizing contracts versus printing, signing and faxing documents to clients or other parties
- increased efficiencies by reviewing external document sources or images that require further analysis or repurposing.
- improved security and compliance with the ability to redact documents and limit sharing to segmented users
Alternatives Considered
Foxit PDF Editor, PDFgear, LibreOffice and Smallpdf
Other Software Used
Action1, LibreOffice, Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Windsurf, Perplexity, WordPress
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I do use Adobe Acrobat for viewing pdf and also for to edit the existing pdfs etc the best part is we can make changes on the pdfs directly and can insert any text or signatures into the pdfs very easily and the best part is in the basic free version we can do all these things.
Pros
- Viewing pdfs no additional pdf viewer required
- Can make any changes in the pdfs directly like insert some content or add on contents
- Easy to export the edited pdfs
Cons
- Limited in free version
- Some pdf contents from non editable pdfs is difficult.
- Above stated are the major drawbacks for Adobe Acrobat apart from those always pop ups or highlights to subscription.
Return on Investment
- I would say it increased productivity
- Saved lot of time from converting different document from one format to other
- Ease of use
Alternatives Considered
Expert PDF Reader and Easy PDF
Other Software Used
Easy PDF, All PDF Converter, CleverPDF
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We assist our customers with applying for licenses in different states and assist with renewals and reporting. The states require PDF forms to be emailed and uploaded to the State in order to apply for the licenses and to submit renewals and reports. We primarily used Adobe Acrobat to fill in forms, add images to forms, edit forms, email forms, upload forms, and send forms for eSignature to our customers.
Pros
- Fill PDF Forms
- Edit PDF Forms
- Convert other File Formats to PDF
Cons
- Billing is literally impossible to work with
- Too many ways to type into a form. Need to all be combined into one way.
- ESignature navigation needs to be improved within the desktop app
Return on Investment
- There has been very little change to Adobe Acrobat for about 10 to 15 years.
- The only major change has been the addition of eSignatures. This has cut down the cost and time to gather ink signatures from customers by about 90%.
Alternatives Considered
Foxit PDF Editor and Nitro Productivity Suite
Other Software Used
Foxit PDF Editor, Nitro Productivity Suite
