Adobe Acrobat

Software Overview

Adobe Acrobat DC is a professional PDF (Portable Document Format) management application. The software provides various tools for creating, editing, converting, sharing, reviewing, and signing .PDF files. It is the upgraded version of Adobe Acrobat Reader, and is available as a monthly subscription in the Acrobat Standard DC (available for Windows only) and Acrobat Pro DC (available for Windows and macOS) offerings.

Acrobat provides a Home screen where you can access PDF files you have opened or shared with others for viewing, reviewing, and signing purposes. The program offers many tools for working with your PDF files, whether they are legal documents, reports, essays, employment applications, brochures, posters, or business forms. You can build a document from scratch, combine multiple files into one PDF, edit a PDF, enhance scanned documents, compress single or multiple PDFs with one click, and more. You can also convert PDFs to various formats, including Microsoft Office (.DOCX, .DOC, .XLSX, .XLS, .PPTX, and .PPT), .JPEG, .TIFF, .PNG, and .RTF.

Adobe's OCR technology enables accurate scanning, indexing, and searching of paper documents. When scanning documents and forms, Acrobat appropriately detects text, font, colors, and images. The application can create PDF Portfolios containing multiple documents, 2D and 3D images, videos, and maps. Also, you can compose PDF forms with editable fields users can fill out and save with Acrobat or Acrobat Reader.

Acrobat allows you to encrypt, password-protect, and digitally sign a document to protect its contents and verify its author. In addition, you can review document modifications with revision control, a feature that displays colored highlights for items a user has inserted, replaced, deleted, or moved within the document.

Summary

Adobe Acrobat is the best application for professionals working with PDFs across all industries. If you use it at home, you may also find Acrobat valuable for scanning documents and saving files in a standard format you can share with friends and family. Adobe Acrobat DC will prove an essential tool no matter where you use it.

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.PDFPortable Document Format File

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