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Adobe Acrobat

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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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where to create, edit, convert, and share PDF files all from within Microsoft Teams – as part of Acrobat integrations with Microsoft 365 apps.
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.
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.
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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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

All you need to know about Adobe Acrobat

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

Superb PDF Editor Ever

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe acrobat is very useful application for viewing or managing pdf because mostly files in our organisations are in pdf format because it works flawlessly in every devices. Acrobat handles pdf very efficiently. Easy to sign pdf documents as well as edit simultaneously. It gives the smooth user experience as well as allow us to convert pdf files to word docs and vice versa.

Pros

  • Easy to manage pdf documents.
  • Allow to add e-sign in pdf files.
  • Quick files conversion and adding of password for protection in pdf.

Cons

  • Tool license is little bit high.
  • AI tool not as good as expected.

Return on Investment

  • E-signature saves time and reduce carbon footprints.
  • Increase pdf security by adding password protected.
  • Follow all security compliance.

Adobe Acrobat the Industry Standard for PDFs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Adobe Acrobat everyday. It is the industry standard for PDF documents. It is used everyday to send PDFs to clients to and sign contracts. I create press quality files for reproduction of brochures, cut sheets price lists and any type of collateral we send out to customers. Also used to make low res files for website downloads.

Pros

  • Press Quality files for reproduction
  • Email format that everyone can open

Cons

  • Nothing it is the industry standard

Return on Investment

  • Affordable to use

Usability