Adobe Acrobat Reader vs. RAD PDF Comparison


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About View, sign, collaborate on, and annotate PDFs with our free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Only with Adobe Acrobat Reader you can view, sign, collect and track feedback, and share PDFs for free. And when you want to do more, subscribe to Acrobat Pro. Then you can edit, export, and send PDFs for signatures. Do more than just open and view PDF files. It’s easy annotate documents and share them to collect and consolidate comments from multiple reviewers in a single shared online PDF. Work on documents anywhere using the Acrobat Reader mobile app. It’s packed with all the tools you need to convert, edit, and sign PDFs. You can use your device camera to capture a document, whiteboard, or receipt and save it as a PDF. Acrobat Reader is connected to Adobe Document Cloud, so you can work with your PDFs anywhere. You can even access and store files in Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, or Microsoft OneDrive.		About Add a fully functional PDF editor to your ASP.NET website in minutes! Compatible with 99% of desktop & mobile browsers, from Internet Explorer 6 through the latest iOS Safari release, RAD PDF simply works. No plugins or other software needed. RAD PDF natively supports the most commonly used PDF features. Beyond a PDF reader, RAD PDF equips web applications with a browser-based PDF editor & PDF annotator. Features not even available in Adobe Acrobat Reader can be used to provide advanced PDF functionality. By enabling PDF form filling, PDF redaction, & PDF signing directly in the web browser, RAD PDF users can utilize PDF features without worrying about having the right platform or software installed! Allow your app to design new PDF forms, protect content, sign PDFs, & more using an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Client (JavaScript) and server APIs allow for endless possibilities .NET Core, Framework, & .NET 5+ supported Try editing any PDF with RAD PDF, FREE!
Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported		Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Companies that need a PDF management and PDF reader solution		Audience Developers and anyone searching for a web based PDF viewer, editor, and form filler to control PDF content access
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported		Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported		API Offers API Supported
Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos		Screenshots and Videos View more images or videos
Pricing $1.95 per month Free Version Supported Free Trial Not Supported		Pricing $299 per developer RAD PDF is priced per developer or server machine Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.6 / 5 ease 4.4 / 5 features 4.6 / 5 design 4.6 / 5 support 4.6 / 5 Read all reviews		Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.3 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Free, well-featured pdf editor. Contains more features, like signing, editing, moving pages, that other basic pdf viewers don't have. A good freemium software for reading PDFs. There are very few complaints on this front. Have been using it consistently for many years. It's amazing with editing and sharing of PDF files. Great with integration with other apps. There is a free version to install. Easy to use when you need to open up a PDF file on a computer to view information. Very user friendly. Easy to create, edit, sign and send PDF documents. Some situations call for secured PDFs so they can't be edited and that is very helpful too! Cons This program can get slow and bulky at times. As part of Adobe, there's always the ad push to get you to sign up for more. Sometimes it acts buggy and fails to load element such as signatures. Great product which works effectively with PDF document. There isn't anything that I dislike about it to be honest. Monthly subscription, my boss is trying to get me to downgrade to Adobe 2007 but I don't want to loose all the features.		Pros from Real Users Pros The best kind and fast service. in every inquiry I always receive a professional response. Great Tool! After evaluating several other replacements for our current PDF solution, RAD PDF is the best fit by a large margin. The architecture is a very close fit to our current solution and will require very little conversion. Support for signatures was a key feature we were looking for, and RAD PDF provides solid signature support.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported		Training Documentation Supported Webinars Not Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported
Company Information Adobe Founded: 1982 United States get.adobe.com/reader/		Company Information Red Software Founded: 2007 United States www.radpdf.com
Alternatives Adobe Acrobat Adobe		Alternatives Nutrient SDK Nutrient
MobiPDF MobiSystems		Adobe PDF Library SDK Datalogics Inc.
RAD PDF Red Software		Apryse PDF SDK Apryse
Adobe PDF Library SDK Datalogics Inc.		MuPDF Artifex Software
Nitro PDF Nitro Software View All		Nitro PDF Nitro Software View All
Categories OCR Supported PDF Supported PDF Annotators Supported PDF Readers Supported		Categories Document Generation Supported PDF Supported PDF Annotators Supported PDF APIs Supported PDF Editors Supported PDF Generators Supported PDF Readers Supported PDF Redaction Supported
PDF Features Annotations Supported Convert to PDF Not Supported Digital Signature Supported Encryption Not Supported Merge / Append Not Supported PDF Reader Supported Watermarking Not Supported Show More Features OCR Features Batch Processing Not Supported Convert to PDF Supported ID Scanning Not Supported Image Pre-processing Not Supported Indexing Supported Metadata Extraction Not Supported Multi-Language Supported Multiple Output Formats Not Supported Text Editor Supported Zone Selection Tool Not Supported		PDF Features Annotations Supported Convert to PDF Not Supported Digital Signature Supported Encryption Supported Merge / Append Supported PDF Reader Supported Watermarking Supported Show More Features Document Generation Features Batch Processing Supported Collaboration Supported Digital Signature Supported Interaction Tracking Supported Multiple Output Formats Supported Templates Supported PDF Editors Features Access Controls / Permissions Supported Annotations Supported Commenting / Notes Supported Compare Side-by-Side Not Supported Customizable Branding Supported Delete Pages Supported Electronic Signature Supported Forms Management Supported Full Text Search Supported Merge / Append Supported Offline Access Supported Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Not Supported Rearrange Pages Supported Rotate Pages Supported Watermarking Supported
Integrations Accops HySecure Supported AutoRedact Supported Azure App Service Not Supported Catalogy Supported CorpDev.Ai Supported DealerSpin360 Supported Dropbox Supported Fleetlane Supported Microsoft IIS Not Supported Ontraccr Supported Opera Not Supported Orbit Supported PDF4Free Supported Papr Supported Penzle Supported Q-Consultation Supported RAISE Supported Rela Supported SlideWhisper Supported SparkLearn Supported Show More Integrations View All 77 Integrations		Integrations Accops HySecure Not Supported AutoRedact Not Supported Azure App Service Supported Catalogy Not Supported CorpDev.Ai Not Supported DealerSpin360 Not Supported Dropbox Not Supported Fleetlane Not Supported Microsoft IIS Supported Ontraccr Not Supported Opera Supported Orbit Not Supported PDF4Free Not Supported Papr Not Supported Penzle Not Supported Q-Consultation Not Supported RAISE Not Supported Rela Not Supported SlideWhisper Not Supported SparkLearn Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 13 Integrations
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