Adobe Acrobat Reader

Overview and practical trade-offs

Major new updates:

Collaborate and share your files in PDF Spaces, and turn your document summaries into podcast-style audio in Acrobat Studio.

The world’s most trusted PDF reader, PDF editor, and PDF maker with more than 635 million installs. View, share, annotate, add comments, and sign documents - all in one app. You can store your files online and read documents anywhere.

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Paid features:

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant • Work across multiple files in one place with PDF Spaces. Collaborate, store, and use AI Assistant across files • Use voice or text prompts with AI Assistant chatbot • Ask questions and get cited answers about details in your document, including charts, graphs, and tables with Figures Q&A • Easily share the responses you get • Try voice support to ask queries and have answers read aloud. • Use new Hands-free to keep the conversation flowing with voice only • Instantly generate summaries from your PDFs with Generative AI Summaries • Get content for emails, text, study notes, blogs, and more

[Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is a paid feature*, free for a limited time]

Edit PDFs • With our PDF editor, edit text and images directly in your PDF (mobile only) • Fix typos or add paragraphs with the PDF editor • Easily add, delete, or rotate any image • Use this PDF signer and PDF viewer to get your docs just right

Recognize text • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) turns scanned PDFs into searchable, editable text to use in other formats

Merge & organize PDFs with PDF Converter • Split or combine multiple files into one PDF with PDF converter • Use the PDF editor to insert, delete, rotate, crop & reorder pages in your PDF file

Create, convert & export PDFs • Easily convert to PDF from any file type including Microsoft, Google Docs, and images • Export and convert PDFs to Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or various image files • Convert web pages to PDFs

Compress & highly secure PDFs • Compress PDF files for easy saving and sharing • Password Protect PDF documents

Have your PDF read aloud • Listen to your PDFs on the go, great for reading support • Choose free voices...

Where it can help

• Improves daily workflows
• Intuitive interface for regular use

Limitations to consider

• Some advanced tools are paywalled
• Learning curve for power features