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Adobe Acrobat

Overview

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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Acrobat checks the box

7 out of 10
February 03, 2024
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Pricing

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Acrobat Standard for Individuals

$12.99

Cloud
per month

Acrobat Standard for teams

$14.99

Cloud
per month per user

Acrobat Pro for Individuals

$19.99

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.adobe.com/acrobat/pricing/b…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $12.99 per month
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Product Details

What is Adobe Acrobat?

Documents are more than just a collection of information and proof. They are foundational to connecting people and ideas, pushing business forward.  Adobe Acrobat helps to keep users connected to their teams while driving business forward – no matter where they are working.

Acrobat is a PDF and e-signature solution with users among Fortune 500 companies. Acrobat users can create, edit, convert, share, sign, and combine documents from the Adobe platform. It provides for digital experiences that enable team to collaborate and work from any device, anytime, anywhere. Liquid Mode in Acrobat also enables users to view PDFs on small screens without the need to pinch and zoom.

In partnership with Microsoft, Adobe aims to reimagine how work gets done in a modern, secure, and connected hybrid workplace. Acrobat solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate with any preferred Microsoft apps so that users save time by creating, editing, sharing, and signing right from Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and more. It also features smart integrations with Google, Box, and other daily use apps.

Acrobat provides access to file protection features to protect documents from being copied, changed, or printed – for added peace of mind. Acrobat helps organizations comply with security standards and regulatory requirements such as GLBA and FERPA. It also meets ISO 32000 standards for electronic document exchange, including special-purpose standards such as PDF/A for archiving, PDF/E for engineering, and PDF/X for printing.

Adobe Acrobat Screenshots

Screenshot of Create, edit, convert, and share PDF files all from within Microsoft Teams – as part of Acrobat integrations with Microsoft 365 apps.Screenshot of With Liquid Mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app, 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 Fill and sign PDF forms from anywhere and on any device.  Collect signatures, digitally track progress, and automatically archive the signed document.Screenshot of With Adobe Scan mobile app, capture and convert documents into high-quality, interactive PDF documents that can be filled out, signed, and shared.  Eliminates the hassle of finding a printer, filling a form by hand, and scanning it again.

Adobe Acrobat Videos

Adobe Acrobat DC is built for the cloud-connected, multi-device world. It streamlines reviews and feedback with a new review service, and users can edit PDFs on tablets with a touch of the finger, or send documents for Signature.
How to make changes to PDFs and send them out to get e-signed in Acrobat Pro.
Password-protected PDFs to keep formatting locked and sensitive info more secure.
Sending PDFs for review, gathering comments in one place, and responding in real time with Acrobat Pro.

Adobe Acrobat Integrations

Adobe Acrobat Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesBulgarian, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukranian

Frequently Asked Questions

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).

Adobe Acrobat starts at $12.99.

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Foxit PDF Editor (FoxitPhantom) are common alternatives for Adobe Acrobat.

Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Adobe Acrobat are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Ability to leave comments.
  • Editing capablities.
  • Exporting functionality.
  • Not a fan of the new Adobe Acrobat, I don't like how the layout is different.
  • Editing could be easier to line up.
  • Getting things onto one page easier.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reading documents.
  • Populating documents with text.
  • Signing documents.
  • I hate when something is not achieved because I don't have full version.
  • It could load a bit faster.
  • There are cheaper tools that do what Adobe does.
Helmi Tatanaki | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • High-Quality PDF Conversion
  • Advanced Editing Features
  • Electronic Signature Functionality
  • The user interface can be overwhelming for new users, with numerous features and settings that are not immediately intuitive.
  • Acrobat can be resource-intensive, leading to slow performance, especially when opening large PDF files or performing complex editing tasks.
  • Acrobat's pricing, particularly its subscription model, can be a barrier for small businesses and individual users
Lainie Strange | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Checking for accessibility.
  • Editing the document through the tag tree.
  • Scanning and covering to a tagged document.
  • Consistently artifacting items correctly.
  • Make it more streamlined to make form fields accessible.
Lou Corsaro | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Creating PDF files through Adobe Acrobat Reader is a simple process and those docs are particularly useful for a company's website as linkable items.
  • When receiving a PDF file, it makes it easy to convert that document or edit it when necessary.
  • The program itself moves quickly and allows for easy reading of importan documents.
  • Would like a better way to organize all the files that show up on the home screen. Drag and drop folders where the headers can be retitled would be helpful.
  • When you click on some files under "recent," they say the file isn't available and can no longer be opened. If that's the case, it would clean up the home screen if those files names were automatically moved to their own folder or deleted.
  • The "clear recent" button at bottom seems to serve only to clean up the home screen. But I don't see another space where it captures all the PDFs in some way so I can see them. Some organized way to maintain headers to old PDFs would be nice.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Converting to PDF from various other formats like word,excel and jpeg etc
  • Converting back to word,excel or other formats.
  • Merging and splitting of documents.
  • Facility for incorporating digital signatures
  • modification in PDF documents is little cumbersome which needs to be improved.
  • modification process needs to be more user friendly
  • inclusion of newer formats for conversion to pdf and vice versa
Samantha Forbes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Document Conversion
  • PDF Creation
  • Secure E-Signatures
  • Fillable forms
  • The cost - It is not cost friendly for everyone
  • User-friendly - It has improved dramatically, but I still find things that are really not very intuitive
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Directly edit text
  • Provide markups and suggestions
  • Insert and remove pages from the same PDF or others on your computer
  • The interface is pretty user-friendly, but I think the options on the lefthand panel could be made a bit easier to read and select from sub-levels
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Print feature to Print a PDF document.
  • Edit feature to edit a PDF document.
  • Creating a PDF document.
  • Combine feature to combine different PDFs.
  • Launch time needs to be improved.
  • Acrobat uses a lot of Ram so it should be improved.
  • It occupies plenty of drive space.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Providing a non-editable/view only document or form for wider distribution.
  • The ease of filling a form once the template has been set up.
  • Text editability on an otherwise static document.
  • The integration with and ability to convert to Word and vice versa.
  • Organize Pages function very useful for incorporating multiple documents together.
  • Split File option is very useful for segregating different pages of documents, especially with bulk MailMerges.
  • Form template set up can be quite arduous and fiddly, especially if trying to set up checkboxes.
  • Regularly have issues with it notifying me I don't have access to to advanced editing despite having a full licence - requires reloading & causes minor disruption.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Allows editing for PDF documents
  • Allows you to create new PDFs from merged documents
  • Provides tools to add new fields on PDFs
  • Complex PDFs can be challenging to edit when they have multiple fields
  • It takes a lot of guesswork and trial/error to learn how to use the various features
Kevin Mejia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • PDF Creation
  • Editing all aspects of PDFs Documents (Text, Images, splitting sheets)
  • Filling out and signing documents
  • Resize the documents and export to different formats.
  • Until now, there's nothing we found areas of improvements that requires a big change.
  • Maybe to refresh the interface to make more friendly to non-expert users.
  • Maybe more organization of the icons.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Editing a document.
  • Remove/insert/rearranges pages within the document.
  • Document security.
  • Option to edit a document after a signature (even if it's just a note on the document Adobe provides stating the document's been edited with '....' after signature.
  • Pricing - making it more affordable for the everyday person.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Find/replace.
  • Developing a spelling checklist.
  • Able to highlight and review easily.
  • Quick save features.
  • No toggle between select and scan.
  • Better representation of visuals.
  • Find/replace is too narrow for words.
Christopher Arnini | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Maintain Layout.
  • Works on Almost any platform.
  • Quick Loading.
  • Able to be secured.
  • The price per license for the pro version is pricey and its per month.
  • Some of the new pdf formats require a updated reader.
  • Team use of acrobat gets expensive.
January 16, 2024

As Expected.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Opens PDFs
  • Free to download and use.
  • Makes file sharing convenient and easy.
  • Integrates well with other programs (ex. Adobe Sign).
  • Converting to Word docs would be nice (not available in DC, just in Pro).
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Edit PDF files.
  • Read PDF Files.
  • Converting PDF files to different formats.
  • Sending documents to be signed.
  • The licensing move to a subscription based model.
  • Requirement to have an adobe account and be connected to internet.
  • Making every feature an add on purchase.
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