| Features | Adobe Acrobat® Standard DC | Nitro Pro 12 |
| User interface | | |
| Print-reduction suggestions | | ● |
| User-friendly Microsoft Office® 2016–style ribbon UI | | ● |
| Smart Tips provide contextual help | | ● |
| Add Tools feature enables customization of Home tab | | ● |
| Multi-window management enables many windows to be created | ● | ● |
| Drag-and-drop individual pages between open documents in different windows | ● | ● |
| Drag-and-drop tabs to view documents in a new window | ● | ● |
| Product Tour for faster user onboarding | | ● |
| Tab-based file handling | ● | ● |
| Microsoft Outlook® plugin to create PDFs from email | ● | ● |
| Floating toolbar for easier access to editing and revision tools | | ● |
| Batch processing: Print, secure, and convert hundreds of documents at a time | | ● |
| PDF and form creation | | |
| Create PDFs from 300+ file types (with source application installed) | ● | ● |
| One-click drag-and-drop creation (desktop or application window) | ● | ● |
| Drag-and-drop a combination of multiple file types into one PDF | ● | ● |
| PDF form creation and editing | ● | ● |
| Batch create PDF files | | ● |
| Convert and export | | |
| Convert PDFs to and from Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as image formats | ● | ● |
| CAD support enables high-quality rendering of computer-aided design (CAD) drawings | ● | ● |
| PostScript-based document conversion to optimize PDF output quality | ● | ● |
| Extract text and images | ● | ● |
| Convert any PDF file to PDF/A 1 & 2 for long-term archiving | | ● |
| Edit text and images | | |
| Insert and edit text, including font, size, color, and more | ● | ● |
| Edit images and pages | ● | ● |
| Edit image properties, including brightness, contrast, colors, and more | | ● |
| Insert and edit Bates numbering/stamping | | ● |
| Optimize, shrink, and repair PDF files | ● | ● |
| Measure distance, area, and perimeter | ● | ● |
| Print, scan, and OCR | | |
| Customizable layout and printing options, including Booklet and Multiple Pages | | ● |
| Large-format printing support for large page sizes | ● | ● |
| High-fidelity OCR for better accuracy in document layout and design | ● | ● |
| Create searchable, editable PDFs from scanned image text | ● | ● |
| Scanned image detection | ● | ● |
| Review and markup | | |
| Highlight, cross out, and underline text annotations | ● | ● |
| Attach files as annotations | ● | ● |
| Sort, manage, filter, and summarize comments | ● | ● |
| Apply Dynamic Stamp annotations, including auto-populating author, date, time, and more | ● | ● |
| Spell check | ● | ● |
| Compare PDF files to easily identify visual and content differences | | ● |
| Sign | | |
| Digitally sign, certify, and QuickSign® PDF files | ● | ● |
| Mobile signing experience | ● | ● |
| Create Digital Signature Profiles for one-step application of digital signatures | ● | ● |
| Capture signatures with webcam | ● | ● |
| Cloud connectivity | | |
| Sharepoint 365 and OneDrive for Business connectors | ● | ● |
| Add custom company branding to automated activity and signature request emails | | ● |
| Integration with Worksite document management system | Requires plugin | ● |
| Convert, compress, and combine PDFs in any web browser | | ● |
| Save and store documents online to Google Drive, DropBox, and Box | Not Google Drive | ● |
| Request and receive secure, legally binding electronic signatures (eSignatures) | Requires subscription add-on | ● |
| Invite others to review and mark up online | ● | ● |
| Share documents securely with others online | ● | ● |
| Document security | | |
| Chain of Trust support for digital signatures | ● | ● |
| Microsoft RMS 2.0 support to secure CAD drawings | | ● |
| Microsoft RMS 2.0 support for protected PDF and PPDF files | | ● |
| Add password protection and permissions to PDF files | ● | ● |
| Redact content and document metadata from PDF files | | ● |
| Support for 64-, 128-, and 256-bit (with R6 Support) encryption | ● | ● |
| Batch security: Specify and execute a set of security commands to multiple files at once | ● | ● |
| Deployment | | |
| Windows devices | ● | ● |
| Mac & iOS devices | ● | |
| Install within thin environments (Terminal Server) | ● | ● |
| Install within virtualized environments (Microsoft App-V and VMware® ThinApp®) | ● | ● |
| Install size less than 450MB | > 4.5 GB | ● |