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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).

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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.
Screenshot of Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, where users can read PDFs on phones and tablets without having to pinch and zoom. Navigate lengthy documents with intelligent outline and search tools, while maximizing readability and comfort with font size and line spacing that are adjustable.
Screenshot of where to fill and sign PDF forms from anywhere and on any device. Here, users can collect signatures, digitally track progress, and automatically archive the signed document.
Screenshot of the Adobe Scan mobile app, used to capture and convert documents into high-quality, interactive PDF documents that can be filled out, signed, and shared. This eliminates the hassle of finding a printer, filling a form by hand, and scanning it again.

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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.

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Adobe Acrobat is still the Gold Standard in the PDF market

Incentivized
J Rio FultzView profile
CEO in Information Technology at RIO3 Consulting (1-10 employees employees)

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

Here is Why You Should Buy Adobe Products.

Incentivized
Joe Reddix
President and CEO in Information Technology at The Reddix Group (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

For years, Adobe has been our company's primary source for creative visuals. We use them for Strategic Planning, PDFs, White House-level presentations, Forms, and Microsoft Product Integrations of Content. The key to this outstanding set of solutions is that they generally stay ahead of the industry. Product integration of Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop sets standards for the industry.

Pros

  • Product integration for example Acrobat, and Photoshop.
  • Ease of use.
  • Dynamic functionality.
  • Small Business Pricing Strategies.
  • Performance.
  • Cloud and Security Features.

Cons

  • Overall Product integration with Artificial Intelligence.
  • Feature integration meaning less individual products.
  • Deeper Partnerships with SMBs.
  • More Free Images (given your quality so far).
  • Enhanced SMB pricing for Startups.

Return on Investment

  • To sum it up, Adobe enables my company to achieve a Global Reach for our Products and/or services through the use of a global standard for information transfer.
  • Great Cost Savings in publication, marketing, and solution segmentation strategies.
  • I would still integrate some features as native to Acrobat.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365 and Attribution in Google Analytics

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge

Adobe Acrobat - A MUST Have for Any Company.

Incentivized
Dennis Blocker
Office Manager in Human Resources at MP Healthcare Medical Supply LLC (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Acrobat to edit documents, create fillable documents, and for many that require signatures. We also use Adobe Acrobat to create marketing materials. This is software that I use every single day, every hour of each workday. It is vital to the operations of our company and thus indispensable.

Pros

  • For the business account, the Adobe Acrobat rep assigned to your account will actively look for ways to save you money.
  • We have found that our rep from Adobe Acrobat Business Account reviews our usage and related apps and has offered helpful tips on better ways to complete tasks we historically undertake with their software. They have saved us a great deal of time and money. They make us efficient.
  • The apps they offer that combine with the primary program are relevant to the tasks our business performs, and they function at a high level and never fail. It's really quite remarkable.

Cons

  • Finding areas for improvement is quite challenging, as the innovators at Adobe continually tweak the software, researching what works and what does not for users.
  • Finding something wrong with this software would be easy if it crashed all the time or was full of bugs, but it is not, so how can I complain about this product? I'm just being real. It's a great product.
  • If I had to dig for a critique, it would be that when editing a document, such as adding text, I have to save the document, exit, and then reopen it to continue editing with a different feature, like adding an image or a signature line.

Return on Investment

  • Adobe Acrobat has saved us time in managing documents. In this day, everything is fast, moves fast, and keeping up with that pace demands software that functions at the same level. Adobe Acrobat does that. It has streamlined the steps I need to take to edit and create documents we need to manage our customers.
  • Adobe Acrobat removes the worry and stress associated with managing a large influx of documents. Something as simple as a document featuring an image that was sent to us upside down. Using the old method, I would have to open other software, click 'Edit', find the 'Rotate Image' button, click it a couple of times, save it as a JPEG, then attach it to Word, and finally save it as a PDF. It was a grueling process that consumed a great deal of time. Now, I simply open the image, and Adobe automatically recognizes it is upside down and fixes it for me. I can save and move on; it literally takes me seconds. Amazing.
  • Adobe Acrobat is intuitive and easy to use, and the additional apps are relevant to the needs that come up. If I have an idea, I can go to the available apps and find exactly what I need. Impressive and speaks to the years of experience this company has had to fine-tune its product and make it obvious that it is aggressive in staying on top.

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, DocuSign, eFax Corporate

Adobe Acrobat isnt aptly named for a software so simple to use no leaps or bounds required

Incentivized
Rod LottView profile
Manager of Marketing Strategy in Marketing at Paycom (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a creative agency within a corporation, we use the full version of Adobe Acrobat (not the free Reader) on a daily basis. For design layouts and proofs, even copy, it's the single-best, single-easiest way to gather and compile feedback of our stakeholders. Everyone can see each other's comments and reply directly. Additionally, unlike a Word document, we don't have to worry about our stakeholders changing anything.

Pros

  • Leaving and replying to comments are extremely easy.
  • In most cases, the PDF retains the designer's true work.
  • Although you can make large files, Adobe Acrobat gives you the opportunity to generate smaller, compressed files for email systems with limited megabyte capability for attachments.
  • Even if a recipient doesn't have Adobe Acrobat, they can download the free Reader for viewing.
  • I especially like Adobe Acrobat's ability to handling pages, whether removing, switching around or even rotating. It couldn't be easier.

Cons

  • Fonts can default (but not always) if the designer doesn't perform due diligence before generating PDFs.
  • The one area Adobe Acrobat is not good at: generating PDFs straight from a website. The results are touch-and-go.
  • The basic nav controls take a little getting used to. What I initially expected to be in one spot could only be found elsewhere.

Return on Investment

  • No worries about compatibility, as files created on PCs can be read on Macs, and vice versa. That has 100% saved us from having to find a workaround.
  • While we still have people who like to print on physical paper, it's becoming less and less as they get used to the ease of reading PDFs on their monitor and storing them on the computer. I now rarely print any paper — maybe 5 pages a week, if any. For the designers, paper is printed only for live "proof of concept" presentations to leadership.
  • In the rare cases we've had sensitive information within a PDF, locking it down and requiring a PIN to open is simple to set up. We've had 0% of those PDFs becoming breached.

Alternatives Considered

WinZip and PDFgear

Other Software Used

Adobe XD, Wrike, Adobe InDesign

Usability

Adobe best overall PDF editor.

Incentivized
John RobinsonView profile
Senior Network Administrator in Information Technology at Children's Defense Fund (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Creation, editing, and publishing of PDF-format documents. Useful to create semi-permanent documents that are in a clean and easily portable format that just about anyone can consume. Additionally, these tools are used for documents that are contracts, as they can be put into DocuSign or Adobe Sign and made secure from editing once signed.

Pros

  • Creating easily portable files.
  • Combings multiple files together into a single larger file.
  • Securing signed files.
  • Editing PDFS others have created.

Cons

  • Edit features are somewhat complicated to use.
  • Account and licensing can be a little expensive.

Return on Investment

  • Creating a secure document has enabled us to publish sensitive information that is difficult for the audience to manipulate.
  • We often need to extract data from PDFs created by others. Acrobat is the most effective way to do this.

Alternatives Considered

PDFEscape

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