![]() Adobe calls it ‘sanitising’ and if you’re into not passing on too much data, it’s a one-click wonder. You also have the option of automatically removing a document’s metadata, embedded URLs, comments, and more. In addition to blanking out certain passages and images, there’s another little highlight here. As you’d expect, the way it works is incredibly simple: just highlight all the problematic sections, and once you’re done, click on ‘Apply’. ![]() Redaction can also prove highly useful when there’s sensitive information on a PDF you’d rather not share with others. We could see this as an invaluable tool in anyone’s workflow. Acrobat will give you a summary of the disparity through a visual representation, and even gives you the ability to filter those results to make it clearer what has changed. Something that makes more sense in the Pro arena is the ability to compare two versions of a document. There’s even a menu called ‘Explain’ which sends you to a webpage telling you why there’s a problem, and why it’s important to fix it. Redacting sensitive information is so easy to do with Acrobat’s ‘Redact’ tool (Image credit: Adobe)īe that as it may, as with other features included with Acrobat, it all works well and is easy to understand. But, we find it baffling why this is restricted to the Pro version? Wouldn’t this feature be of greater benefit if the Standard version had access to it as well? Some can be resolved automatically, while others may require a little more work. This is a very important feature for any business, and once you check a document, you’re given a list of issues to fix to improve a document’s accessibility. Take your iPhone camera: you can take a photo with it and any text contained within it becomes selectable - and all without having to pay a subscription.Īnother one which is more understandably a Pro feature, is the ability to create and validate PDFs to meet accessibility standards. Although it’s undoubtedly highly useful to be able to do that, some of the best free PDF editors, and even modern hardware, have been offering such a feature for a while now. ![]() Take the ability to turn a scanned paper document into a searchable PDF. While the ‘as-Standard’ tools feel weighty, essential for a PDF power user, we couldn’t shake the sense that some tools labelled as “Pro”, don’t really feel that they belong in a “Pro” category. Some very useful and obviously professional tools, coupled with others that should really be considered mainstream by now.Use Acrobat’s Accessibility tool to check if your file meets the accessibility compliance standard (Image credit: Adobe) It’s a very comprehensive, even impressive, feature-set - and that’s just the tools you get in Acrobat Standard. This is all done in a very intuitive way, and even though you might select a specific tool, you’re able to effortlessly access others without having to leave the confines of said tool. When it comes to security, adding a password to protect a PDF’s content and prevent others from editing it is a cinch. You also have the ability to combine multiple PDFs into a single file, reorder pages, and delete some. You can change a PDF’s format, and export it as a Microsoft document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint), turn a PDF into images, convert it to HTML, edit it, change the embedded text and images, create PDFs from scratch, fill in and sign PDFs (it’s some of the best eSignature software we’ve ever tested), and there’s plenty more besides. This means you’re able to comment on a PDF, share it with others and track the progress of those files. All the features available in the Standard edition are present and correct in Pro’s comprehensive toolkitĪs you’d expect, all the tools available in Standard can be accessed in Pro.These are the tools we used during both Standard and Pro reviews (Image credit: Adobe)
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