# What is the difference between Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

What is the difference between Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC?

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## Comments
### Comment 1

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is free and mainly used to view, print, and annotate PDFs.
Adobe Acrobat DC is paid and includes advanced features like editing PDFs, converting files, creating documents, and adding digital signatures.


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### Comment 2

Reader DC = Read & annotate PDFs (free)
Acrobat DC = Create, edit, and manage PDFs (paid)

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### Comment 3

Adobe reader cannot convert between PDF to other file format such as Excel, image, Word file etc.

Adobe reader also does not have scanning capability to auto convert text to selectable words. Adobe Acrobat has much more features too such as adding Text to documents,  editing existing PDF files etc.

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- Posted at: over 3 years ago
- Author title: Senior Customer Solution Specialist – R2P at Alcon



### Comment 4

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free program that works on all platforms. It lets you create PDF documents on one computer and use a PDF viewer like Adobe Reader to view them on another computer.It is available for free download from Adobe's website, or it can be obtained from other sources as long as they adhere to Adobe licensing requirements.Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader are not the same thing.In point of fact, it is merely a subset of a much larger Adobe family that has undergone numerous iterations throughout time.Alongside review and printing PDF records, it likewise permits you to do a ton of things with PDFs like structure culmination, remarking on reports, switching PDFs over completely to Word or Succeed, marking and ensuring structures, and so on.

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