Adobe Acrobat vs. TextSniper

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Acrobat
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
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).
$19.99
per month
TextSniper
Score 8.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
TextSniper is a desktop Mac OCR app that can extract and recognize non-searchable and editable text on a Mac's screen, and can turn text into speech. It is presented as an alternative to difficult and complicated optical character recognition tools. The tool aims to make extracting text from images, paper documents, PDFs or videos easy. It is accessible from the menu bar and boasts a simple user interface. The vendor says working with TextSniper is like using a built-in mac's screen capture…N/A
Pricing
Adobe AcrobatTextSniper
Editions & Modules
Acrobat Pro for Individuals
$19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams
$23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals
$24.99
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Adobe AcrobatTextSniper
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Adobe AcrobatTextSniper
Considered Both Products
Adobe Acrobat
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Actually,, Adobe Acrobat is a GO TO PDF partner to all of these. It's a critical member of the production (output) family.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat has more features and is included in my Creative Cloud subscription.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
It has a better competitive price and provides more options than DocuSign or Canva when it comes to editing text documents. Have the ability to Edit not only text but reorder pages on a document makes it easier. Also, you can integrate the design option such as photoshop by …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is far more visual than any other document editor/viewer. As a veteran in the market, it understands its customers' needs well and has managed to stay relevant and keep its tools up-to-date. Furthermore, it maintains a good balance between the number of tools it …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is great for organizations to use, while the other tools are mostly targeted to individual users. We have tried other software, Adobe products with their ecosystem and different products with the same subscription, ended up being more useful than buying different …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I am sure it works fine but I do not have any reason to ever use it instead of or in addition to acrobat. If the software is working fine, has the features you need and is already well known by the staff, it would be foolish to switch to a different software.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I don't know if it's the many years of experience I have using Adobe Acrobat or that they just seem to evolve along with the industry, the other programs I have tried (not by choice) just don't seem to have the abilities I have found and used with Adobe Acrobat.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat runs in a parallel way to these other products. Only Illustrator has a function that you can save files as PDF and read them in acrobat Reader. And you can open PDF files and edit them. The thing is that for simple things and simple modifications Adobe Acrobat has …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is far superior to Microsoft Edge's PDF reader. It is far more robust in the features that are offered without sacrificing any user friendliness.
Bluebeam offers more detailed editing features, specifically for things like construction documents. However, …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is better for a few reasons: it has more powerful capabilities like editing, it's stable, it's exported files are universally compatible. The two I named above are ok in a pinch, but definitely not something we use if we can avoid it.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is the best tool to be able to view and amend documents especially for accessibility. While some other products might be better for editing the documents Adobe Acrobat will allow you to do a full accessibility report and ensure that the content of the document is …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I have used eCopy Pro before. This, when I used it, was very limited on what I can do with whole pages or electronic signatures. It did not at the time have the function to get an electronic signature directly. It would allow me to erase meta data, but I am not sure that is …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
For what we need the application for, Acrobat is the right software. Yes, it is the right tool for the job and for our organization to complete the projects we need it to do and succeed with.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
It just seems like Adobe is PDF-first, and others are trying to catch up. I'm used to it, and it does everything I need.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat has the naming and reliability solidified all over the world and the name already share what's needed to work without security issues
Chose Adobe Acrobat
We like the interoperability between Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. Their is native support to export from or to either format, but Adobe Acrobat Reader is free & everyone can view & print PDF documents free of charge.
Chose Adobe Acrobat
DocuSign was the main alternative we looked at seriously. The E-Signature side is comparable, but DocuSign does not give you the broader PDF editing and OCR capabilities, so you would still need another tool alongside it. Acrobat made more sense as a single tool that covered …
Chose Adobe Acrobat
I got Adobe Acrobat for free
Chose Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat is an amazing tool. I chose this one because I did not see any others that I had enough knowledge to give a true review. I am more of a creative user when it comes to Adobe. I am new to marketing.
TextSniper
Chose TextSniper
TextSniper is more reliable and secure, you can trust the UI of this software and it's more easy and more fun to use. Rossum is more costly and a very less number of people recommend me to go with Rossum. TextSniper is more popular and has some great features for the users who …
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User Ratings
Adobe AcrobatTextSniper
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
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8.2
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Likelihood to Renew
9.0
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Usability
8.8
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
5.3
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Support Rating
9.5
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-
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Online Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
9.9
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Configurability
7.9
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-
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Ease of integration
8.0
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-
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Product Scalability
7.1
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Vendor post-sale
1.0
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Vendor pre-sale
1.0
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User Testimonials
Adobe AcrobatTextSniper
Likelihood to Recommend
When asked, I tend to suggest Adobe Acrobat vs Docusign, it's easier to use, cheaper and has more editing options available. I suggest Adobe Acrobat for many things over other programs, sometimes the only issues is the cost, you need to own Adobe Acrobat to do a lot of things, and the cost can be can an issue for people.
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TextSniper is well suited if you are doing any work where you deal with OCR files, noneditable and nonsearchable text you can use TextSniper to edit and copy those texts and update and use in your project or document, this is best when you use zoom or any video chatting and having any text and related text to copy or nonsearchable text to use, TextSniper is best for to make your life easier and save your time.
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Pros
  • ISO standard PDF creation is critical for print production, so that there are no surprises on press.
  • Adobe Acrobat's security features are simple to use, and effective.
  • Most clients have no difficulty with the commenting features in Adobe Acrobat, which makes review quick and simple.
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  • Make your OCR file document text editable
  • Make your text and nonsearchable text more visible and useful
  • Save your time and you can easily edit and update any document with OCR text
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Cons
  • For as amazing as Adobe Acrobat is, a lot of the time it does feel like one of the more clunky and slow Adobe programs.
  • Ability to edit text! Adobe Acrobat sometimes struggles with fonts and editing the text ends up messing with the text in weird ways.
  • It would be cool to have multiple versions of the same preflight single fixups! I use the same single fixup but need to adjust it for multiple sizes! I'd like to be able to save another version of it with the different sizes.
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  • TextSniper should think about the other operating system users also
  • the can do some more improvement with OCR file-related text and some more editing and updating features for Mac users
  • They can make a more reliable and supportive customer support team for TextSniper users
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Likelihood to Renew
Adobe Acrobat works seamlessly with the other Adobe products we use that are industry-standard. We will certainly continue to use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, meaning it will always be convenient to work seamlessly with Adobe Acrobat for our organization. We are happy with the performance of Acrobat and it's meets our expectations.
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Usability
We have not experienced any major problems using Adobe Acrobat within our company. We use a variety of computer devices, and it works well on all machines. The only minor issues we have had occur have been the software getting "hung up" during some printing tasks and conversion tasks, but these sorts of inconveniences have been few and far between.
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Reliability and Availability
We have not had availability issues with Adobe Acrobat, or at least none that I am personally aware of. Some may encounter crashes of the software during outages of electricity in their city or neighborhood, which no one can plan for, but with generators in our organization, we have been lucky not to have outages
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Performance
One of the best features of Adobe Acrobat is its speed and stability. When dealing with massive multi-page files, having to reload a crashed program over and over again would slow down progress unnecessarily. And expanding on that, having the table of contents generated allows me to skip to different pages with ease, a necessary feature with exceptionally long files. word searches are even more helpful with text recognition.
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Support Rating
For a while, Acrobat DC crashed pretty frequently. I contacted Adobe Acrobat support about the problem. At first support was unable to provide a solution. After about a month Adobe's software engineers provided a fix. I just wish it had taken less than a month to solve the problem.
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Online Training
Answered basic questions.
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Implementation Rating
I was not involved with the implementation process, so I cannot answer this question. However, when it was installed on my computer system, they did so virtually. I just sat there while they took control of my computer over the network and watch them install it, lickety split
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Alternatives Considered
I am sure it works fine but I do not have any reason to ever use it instead of or in addition to acrobat. If the software is working fine, has the features you need and is already well known by the staff, it would be foolish to switch to a different software.
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TextSniper is more reliable and secure, you can trust the UI of this software and it's more easy and more fun to use. Rossum is more costly and a very less number of people recommend me to go with Rossum. TextSniper is more popular and has some great features for the users who are really interested in such tools.
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Scalability
I find that many users aren't aware of many features of the software they use, nor may they be comfortable with learning multiple-step processes. For the simplest of PDF purposes (scanning, downloading, exporting), it gets a thumbs-up. For anything involving electronic signatures, meh--causes eyes to glaze over, or forgetting what all is involved.
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Return on Investment
  • Time spent on manual document prep dropped noticeably once OCR became part of the workflow, about roughly 3-4 hours a week across the team, just from not retyping scanned documents.
  • Fewer errors in documents going out to clients because edits happen in the original file rather than recreating things from scratch.
  • The pricing is a real negative ROI consideration. At this cost, you expect the performance to be consistently solid, but it isn't always, which makes it harder to fully recommend internally.
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  • TextSniper saves your time and money
  • TextSniper makes your editing and project-related work more simple and easy
  • TextSniper support team is not so supportive
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ScreenShots

Adobe Acrobat Screenshots

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.

TextSniper Screenshots

Screenshot of Image shows how TextSniper could be used to extract text from YouTube video.Screenshot of Unnoticed until you need it. TextSniper lives in the menu bar, SO it's out of the way but on hand when needed.Screenshot of Screenshot of Text to Speech. You can have TextSniper speak the recognized text whenever you need it.Screenshot of TextSniper under Big Sur operating system recognizes English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and ChineseScreenshot of Image describes how TextSniper works. 1. Step.  Press Shift+Cmd+2 to start or select a Capture Text from the menu bar. 2. Step. Select any region with text on your screen.  3. Step. Paste copied text to clipboard into any text editing application.