You buy Acrobat DC the impacted product because you’re using it as more than a reader. OCR image to text (laying the text invisibly within the pdf as metadata b

You buy Acrobat DC the impacted product because you’re using it as more than a reader. OCR image to text (laying the text invisibly within the pdf as metadata behind the image) is a common use case. Slim down a bloated pdf eg that came out of a scanner driver. Properly redact sensitive information (legal, govt, journalism context). The software is flawed even beyond security issues but for creating or editing PDF files there is not much competition. (There is some and I’ve used that too and it’s mostly worse. It’s a hard problem apparently.)