Adobe Acrobat is still the Gold Standard in the PDF market
Updated October 05, 2025

Adobe Acrobat is still the Gold Standard in the PDF market

J Rio Fultz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Acrobat

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
  • 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
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
Scalability is the biggest feature when we look at tools. Can the tool handle substantial workloads, without hogging computing resources so we can handle multiple tasks simultaneously. Additionally, having a quickly edited document that can be stored locally or within the cloud is convenient and effortless. Document handling has always been a strong feature for Adobe Acrobat that appears more constrained with competing PDF solutions.
We have not experienced any security or compliance issues over the years with Adobe Acrobat. The password protection, allowing of specific users to view/edit documents, along redaction tools for private/restricted information, allow our organization to trust that we are using the right product.
Adobe Acrobat has been the market leader against these other solutions for our organization when needing more robust, enterprise grade features. Cost versus benefit has placed Adobe Acrobat at or near the top option for our organization. Some of the other solutions do singular functions well or have a free model that can be appealing for infrequent use.

Do you think Adobe Acrobat delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Adobe Acrobat's feature set?

Yes

Did Adobe Acrobat live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Adobe Acrobat go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Adobe Acrobat again?

Yes

Adobe Acrobat is still the top of mind product in the .PDF space. There are plenty of other solutions, but if someone asked me, I would recommend Adobe Acrobat first. More often than not, they have used Adobe Reader and have familiarity with the layout, look & feel of the product. Adobe has other ancillary products that are tightly integrated, which makes the expansion of use easy and appealing.

Using Adobe Acrobat

2 - Business consulting. We draft and edit documents for various types of business transactions. We also will us Adobe Acrobat, to keep our document IP secure while sharing for review. Adobe Acrobat has been in use buy our firm personally since the beginning of 2015. I have personally been using it for much longer.
1 - I have always contacted support or figured out my own issues. We are a small consulting firm in the tech space. Thankfully, we are able to resolve most of our issues internally. This is our structure in general across our entire tech stack.
  • Document tracking and signatures
  • Secure document creation and sharing
  • Document import and export functionality
  • file type conversions
  • OCR reading
  • PDF file size optimization
  • Document creation
  • Document sharing
  • workflows
  • secure document collaboration
Adobe Acrobat is a market leader in their space. There are other solutions available, but Adobe Acrobat provides a good value for their pricing, along with a deep suite of other products withing their platform. The ease of use and integrations make it a worthwhile consideration.

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