Adobe Acrobat Pro is the full PDF authoring, editing and prepress tool — the same application creative agencies, legal teams, government departments and accessibility consultants reach for when a PDF has to be more than viewed. If you only need to read PDFs and fill in forms, see Adobe Reader instead. This catalog hosts every Windows release from Acrobat XI Pro through Acrobat Pro 2025.
What Acrobat Pro can do that Reader cannot
- Edit text and images directly inside an existing PDF, reflow paragraphs and replace fonts when the original is no longer available
- OCR scanned documents into searchable, selectable text in 40+ languages — including ClearScan that rebuilds the page as a vector font
- Build interactive forms with text fields, dropdowns, checkboxes, calculations, validation, digital signatures and submit-by-email actions
- Combine, split, reorder and rotate pages from any source (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, web pages) into a single bookmarked PDF
- Redact sensitive content permanently, sanitise hidden metadata and apply Bates numbering for legal discovery
- Compare two PDFs side-by-side with a change report — invaluable for contract revisions and design proofing
- Export to fully editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint, RTF, HTML and image formats while preserving tables and layout
Prepress and archiving
Acrobat Pro's Preflight engine validates a PDF against printer-specific profiles (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-4) and fixes common issues automatically — flattening transparency, converting RGB to CMYK with an ICC profile, embedding fonts, reducing ink coverage. For long-term archiving, save as PDF/A-1, PDF/A-2 or PDF/A-3 to meet ISO requirements for libraries, government records and audit trails.
Accessibility
The Accessibility tools generate and verify tagged structure (headings, lists, tables, alt text, reading order) and run the Accessibility Checker against PDF/UA and WCAG 2.1 criteria. Combined with InDesign's Export Tagged PDF, Acrobat Pro is the standard toolchain for delivering PDFs that screen readers can navigate properly.
Electronic signatures
Send documents for signature via Adobe Sign, track progress, collect signatures from multiple parties in a defined order and store the final audit trail inside the PDF. Self-signed certificates and PKCS#12 / smart-card-based signatures are also fully supported for on-prem environments.
Adobe Acrobat Pro
Professional PDF editor for creating, editing, converting, signing, and protecting PDF documents. Acrobat Pro is the industry standard for business document workflows.