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PDF creation, editing, and searching

Unify a wide range of content into a PDF Portfolio: Combine documents, drawings, email, and spreadsheets into a single, compressed PDF Portfolio. Use professionally designed templates that can be branded with your logo and include descriptions to guide recipients through the contents.
Convert paper documents to PDF: New optical character recognition (OCR) technology and support for a broader range of scanners improves searchability and appearance of the scanned documents. See Scan a paper document to PDF.
Convert web pages to PDF: Improved web capture allows you to convert complete web pages or just the portions you want, including or excluding rich and interactive media. PDF versions of web pages are easy to print, archive, mark up, and share. See Converting web pages to PDF.
Convert documents from new versions of Lotus Notes and AutoCAD: Acrobat now supports Lotus Notes 8.5. Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Pro Extended now support Autodesk AutoCAD 2009.
Compare PDF documents: Acrobat Automatically highlights the differences between two versions of a PDF document, including text and images, so you can quickly and easily identify what has changed. See Compare a revised PDF to an earlier version.
Search across multiple PDFs: Enhanced functionality enables you to search multiple PDF files in the same folder to help you quickly find the information you need.

Use Acrobat.com for shared reviews: Participants download the file from Acrobat.com, and add comments or data using Acrobat or Adobe Reader. When finished, participants publish comments or submit responses to Acrobat.com. When using Acrobat.com for shared reviews, you can also allow reviewers to open and share the PDF in a live chat session. See Starting a review.
Collaborating in online meetings: Use Adobe ConnectNow, a personal web-conference tool, to conduct real-time meetings on your desktop. Attendees join the meeting by logging into a web-based meeting space from their own computers. In a ConnectNow online meeting, you can share your desktop, use live chat, share online whiteboards, and use many other collaboration features. See Collaborate in online meetings.
Use Acrobat.com to upload and share large documents: From Acrobat or Reader, you can create your own user account on Acrobat.com. Use Acrobat.com to upload and share most document types, and to share PDFs or your desktop in online meetings. See Share documents with others.
Synchronize document views: Ensure colleagues, clients, and partners are on the same page at the same time with the ability to co-navigate documents. Use Collaborate Live to provide clarity, enhance discussion, and walk recipients through a document in real time. See Collaborate with others in a PDF.

Easily create and edit electronic forms: (Windows) Use the new Forms Wizard to convert Microsoft® Word and Excel documents or scanned paper into PDF forms. Form fields are automatically recognized and converted to fillable fields. Quickly add, edit, and name form fields. Use the Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. See Create forms using Acrobat.
Collect and export form data: Easily collect user data and export the data to a spreadsheet for analysis and reporting. See Collecting and managing form data.
Track forms: Use the Tracker to see when forms have been completed and who has completed them. See About Forms Tracker.
Use QuickBooks data in forms: (Windows English only) Import and export Intuit QuickBooks data using custom templates. See Using QuickBooks data in forms (Windows).
Create and distribute online forms: Create and distribute online forms using your web browser and the Adobe FormsCentral service. Recipients fill out these forms using any Internet-connected device. See Create online forms using FormsCentral.

Isolate parts in an assembly: Display the geometry, PMI, and PMI views for an isolated part, and hide or deselect these elements for all other parts. See Hide, isolate, and change the appearance of parts.
Include Flash content in PDFs: Add Flash® videos and animations to your PDF documents. Native support for Flash enables reliable cross-platform playback. No additional media player is necessary. See Add multimedia to PDFs.
Add comments to videos: Add comments to a video as you are watching it. Each comment is attached to a specific frame, so that when you view the comments, they appear in the context in which they were made. You can also enable Acrobat Standard and Adobe Reader users to add comments to videos. See Add comments to videos.
View and interact with PDF maps: Search, measure, and mark up geospatially enabled PDF maps. Discover the longitude and latitude by placing your cursor over a location. Measure PDF maps in kilometers or miles. See Using Geospatial PDFs.

Long-term signature validation enhancements: Embed the certificate chain, revocation status, and timestamp after signature creation. Allow valid, but expired timestamps to be used. See Establish long-term signature validation.
Create ink signatures: Add a simple handwritten signature on a page. See Sign a PDF.

Search and redact: Search and redact a list of words or phrases or a specific text pattern (for example, phone numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, or dates). See Search and redact words.
Bates numbering for PDF Portfolios: When designating documents for Bates numbering, you can add PDFs, PDF Portfolios, and any non-PDF files that can be converted to PDF. The process converts non-PDF file types to PDF, and then adds Bates numbers to the resulting PDF. If you add Bates numbering to a PDF Portfolio, any non-PDF files in the PDF Portfolio are replaced with the converted and numbered PDFs. See Add a Bates numbering header or footer.

Output preview enhancements: Use the Object Inspector to quickly inspect content in a document. The information displayed is for all content that is directly underneath where the cursor is clicked.
Preflight enhancements: Validate PDF/E compliance and save documents as PDF/E. Run checks and fixups on selected objects. View improved reports.
Color conversion enhancements: Set the transparency blending space. Remap spot colors using the Pantone library. Easily convert colors using the new design.