Adobe Acrobat Pro is periodically updated with new features and improvements.Īdobe Acrobat is also available in a non-subscription software currently called Adobe Acrobat 2020. Instead, this list is based on the features I believe are most important to a general audience.Īcrobat Reader is Adobe’s free PDF display software.Īdobe Acrobat is a PDF creation and management software available as an annual subscription called Adobe Acrobat Pro. This isn’t an exhaustive list of differences and similarities. However, the OCR software provided by our scanning service partners will not necessarily give identical results to the built-in OCR used for searching within Adobe Reader.įor example, a common problem with OCR of typewritten documents is for spaces between letters to be interpreted as spaces between words: l i k e t h i s.Today’s post discusses five differences and one similarity between Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader to help you decide which program is best for your PDF projects. Both Adobe Reader and the website search and browse facilities use optical character recognition (OCR) software to ‘read’ the scanned document images and convert them to searchable text. In some circumstances Adobe Reader may not find the words in the document, even though they are there. The full search screen will appear.Īpply additional criteria or click on ‘Show More Options’ and then apply more criteria, as required.
If you wish to conduct an advanced search of the document:Ĭlick on the tiny down arrow on the right-hand side of the search box. Click on the ‘Next’ button (a small arrow pointing to the right) to take you to the next place it occurs.
Providing Adobe Reader can find the word or phrase in the document, you will be taken to the first location where it occurs in the PDF. Type in the word or phrase you are looking for. Go to the document landing page and click on the button to download the document.Ĭlick on ‘Ctrl’ and then ‘F’ (or ‘Edit’ and ‘Find’). You can use the Adobe Reader search tool to find particular words or phrases in any of the PDF documents on this website.
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