How to Use Adobe Acrobat in 2025 – Edit PDFs, Use AI Assistant, and More!

Tired of clunky PDF tools that never seem  to do what you want them to? Have you ever   opened up a PDF and thought, "Why can't I just  edit this like a regular document? Or maybe   you've spent hours scrolling through pages  trying to find that one key detail. " Well,   Adobe Acrobat changes all of that. From  powerful editing tools to an AI assistant   that can actually summarize and explain your  documents to you, this is a game changer.

Hi everyone, Jamie here from Teachers Tech.   In this video, I'll show you how to use Adobe   Acrobat, perfect for beginners and intermediate  users. We'll cover editing PDFs, organizing pages,   adding comments and signatures, and much more.   I'll show you how to use AI Assistant that helps   you research, summarize, and understand your  documents. Thanks for Adobe for sponsoring   today's video. Try Acrobat for yourself with  the link in the description. Let's jump in. So,   before we dive into all the features, let's  quickly talk about what Adobe Acrobat actually is.    Adobe Acrobat is a powerful tool for working with  your PDF files. It's not just for opening and   reading PDFs. It lets you edit text and images,  organize pages, add comments and signatures,   and now even uses AI features to summarize and  understand your documents. Whether you're a   student, a professional, or managing business  files, it gives you way more control over your   PDFs. There are two main versions you can choose  from. Acrobat standard gives you the essentials.    editing, combining files, converting to  and from PDFs, and basic e- signatures.    Acrobat Pro takes it a step further with  extra features like comparing documents,   redacting sensitive information, and advanced  security tools. Now, you might be wondering,   how is this different from the free Adobe Acrobat  Reader? Well, the free reader only lets you view,   print, and make simple comments. If you've ever  tried to edit a PDF and reader, you've probably   noticed you can't. Acrobat Standard and Pro unlock  all those editing, organizing, and AI powered   features that Reader doesn't have. And the best  part is Acrobat isn't tied to just one device.    You can use it on your desktop through a web  browser or on the mobile app for iOS and Android,   so you can work on your PDFs wherever you are.   Let's start by opening Adobe Acrobat. You can see

I have the shortcut right here on my desktop. I  also have a folder with some PDFs on that I'll be   demoing from. When I open this up, the first thing  that I just want to point out, I'm already logged   in. It automatically logged in to my account.   And you will need to log in to Adobe Acrobat to   get it to work with your subscription. Now, if I  click on it, you can see what account I'm logged   in. I can manage my account from here. Now, if I  move over to the left right here, I want to point   out this. When we open up Adobe Acrobat, we're  going to be on the homepage. So, with a homepage,   you'll get all these different shortcuts here  that you can quickly access any of these and you   can go back to the recents here. And I'll talk a  bit a little bit more about these later on. Now,   something that's overlooked in Adobe Acrobat is  the menu. It's right here. So, if I click on this,   you can see where I can open files from PDFs. I  can open recent. I can create files from here,   too. From a PDF file, from scanner, from web page.   There's multiple ways you can do this in Adobe   Acrobat. Uh we can combine our save or save as are  here. Now, I'll show you some other ways, too. If   I go over to create, and I'm just hovering over  top of it right now, you can see I can create a   PDF from here. I can combine files or open files.   If I just click off, I'm going to click on create.    If I click on create right away, it just brings  me to this. This is where I can select files,   multiple files. So again, a different way to  open up your files. I want you to point uh take   a look at this right here. Choose from docs. So  that would be Word, Excel, text, etc. If you're   wondering what you can open with Adobe Acrobat,  just click on this for more formats. They're going   to give you a large list. This is something that  makes Adobe Acrobat so great to use. Now, again,   if I click on the home, it brings me back. If I  go over here to see all tools, this will really   get you to get an understanding of how powerful  this is. So when I click on this here again,   we can open files or start from different tools it  has. So notice here's the AI assistant, generative   summary, all my editing. I like how they're  grouped into these different things. So this is   all the ways that I can edit a PDF, uh, organize,  add rich media, prepare a form. I have a different   video that I'm going to connect uh down below in  the description. And I'm not going to talk about   that in this video. So check out that other video  if you want to know how to create a form. We can   convert, create, eign, all the different things  that you can do with signatures. We can protect,   remember what I said about the differences between  pro and standard. Pro will give you a lot more   options for protection of your files. Share,  review, prepare, all these different things.    So this gives you a real understanding what  pro can do for you. There's a closeup here.    uh we can click back to home and this is a little  bit about the navigation. We can change our view   here as well. So once we know where everything is  there, we can start with first some editing. Let's   start with doing some basic editing of some text  and images in a PDF. So I need to open a PDF. If   I've already opened it before, it's going to be in  recent and the one I am is going to open is there.    But if it's not there, I can go to menu and open.   And here it is right here. So when I double click   on this to open, notice I get this tab here. I  could still navigate back to home and the tab is   still here. I can click on star if this is going  to be an important document. If I wanted to have   that easy access to get back to start, I could  do it across all devices or only on this device   and hit okay. If I close this down, that's how you  can close out. You can also just take a PDF that's   on your desktop or in a file and drag it over and  it's going to open in Adobe Acrobat as well. Now,   how do you make these basic edits? It's  super easy. If I look over on the left here

and go to edit a PDF, as soon as I click on it,  notice I get the lines across all of this. So,   where the fonts are, as I scroll down, I want to  point out a little bit about navigation in here.    If I look at the tools down here, I could jump to  the next pages very quickly. I could zoom in and   out just by clicking. And you can see the drag  feature, uh, depending on how you want to make   those changes. So, if I go back up, I'll zoom  out a little bit more here. And I want to make   a change to this. So, right away, I don't want it  to say 24 anymore. I want to say 25. All I have to   do is click in. So, as soon as I click in, you can  see it's flashing here. I could hit backspace and   just put my five. It shows me over here under the  format text that when I clicked in, it just picked   up that font that it was using, the color that it  was using here. So here where it says spill and I   wanted to say small. If I click in there, notice  it makes that quick change to aerial and 17 and I   can make those changes like that. It's very easy.   Just like word processor, open up a PDF and just   start editing to it. You have some other options  as well. You'll notice that there's text alignment   in this, we have or if we want things to be bold.   So, if I highlight something in here, uh, and I   go and click on bold, you can see how you can make  those quick adjustments. And we have our paragraph   spacing and our character spacing. You can make  all those adjustments here. Now, the next thing   I want to show you is that if I click anywhere on  the outside of this, then I have the whole uh this   whole spot selected. I can go ahead and do things  like hit delete on my keyboard and it will remove   that whole block. If I want it back, remember  there's the undo up here or I can use controllz.    So, just like other products, remember the undo.   Now, you can also make quick edits to images. So   in this case right here, if I click on this one,  notice as soon as I click on it, I get options.    I could do things like crop. As soon as I click  crop, notice over here that this is highlighted as   well. So there's different places you can get to  the same thing. I get these cropping handles that   I can pull in and start changing the image. And  I can always move it back as well. Notice if I uh   just drag it back or using the control Z a couple  times, it will put it back to where I would like.    Now, the other thing that you can do is edit the  image. So, if I click on edit the image, so you   could take any of these, it it's going to open it  in Adobe Express. It's connected to Adobe Express.    And if you've used Adobe Express before, uh you'll  know all the great things you can do. I'll connect   it to that video of Adobe Express if you want to  learn more about that as well. But maybe I want   to do things like remove a background or insert an  object or even just make some adjustments to the   color. You can see. So I've made a quick change  to the color here. I'm going to hit apply. And   just like that, I've edited that image. I can  actually even generate an image in here using   AI. So I can go through, give it a prompt, and  it will place that in. Another thing I like,   if you have a picture you want, you can replace  the image. So, if it's going to stay in the   same place. So, if you don't want to mess around  with making things move or make sure it fits,   if I click on that, I can go grab an image from  my computer and it's going to place this in. So,   all these different things that you can edit your  font or edit images very quickly. And the thing   I want to point out now, now that you've edited,  make sure you save your PDF. So, you can go ahead   and go up here and notice we have the save. If we  want to keep the same name, I can click this. If I   wanted to have a different copy, I could go save  as. So, if I click save, this is all saved. Now,   if I just exit out and I'm going to open it up  again. So, if I go back to open, and you'll see   that all the saves are made that I just did to it.   I showed you how to edit text and images in a PDF,   but you can also add new as well. So, if I go back  to edit a PDF, we have add content. If I want to   add text, I can click on text and I can go and  choose my different font and color just like I   showed you before and size. Then I can just drag a  text box. I click on it and how where do I want my   text box and then I can just type inside of it. If  I move my mouse to the to this line where the text   box is, I can move this. If I click and hold,  I can grab it and put it in different places.    This is right here. This is a rotate one. So when  I hover over and once you get that symbol of the   curved arrows, I can click and hold and I can  rotate this as well. Remember the undo. You can   also add images. So if I go back to my image here,  so under content, click image. This time I could   choose an image just like how I chose this one  here. Uh that was to replace, but you could choose   a brand new to add or I could generate an image  as well. This goes to Adobe Express and using AI,   I can type in whatever I would like. In this  case, Panda eating ice cream. I can say, is   it a square content type? You can make all these  changes. Click generate and then in a few seconds,   you're going to get an AI generated image. So,  this can save you a lot of time when you're   uh when you need to have those images right  inside. So, you pick the one you like. We can hit   apply. You'll see it's attached to my mouse and I  would try to find a spot. As soon as I find one,   I'll click here. I can keep moving it around as I  would like. So, I can drag it. I can uh grab the   handles. I can make it smaller. This is the rotate  here. And then I can put it wherever I would like   on the page. So, that's how you add some more  content. What I want to show you now is how you   can add some links into your documents. So, if I  go back to edit a PDF, and this time I'm going to   go to more under the add content, and you can see  that there's links. So, I'm going to add a link to   a website or file. What I need to do is just click  on this add or edit a link. As soon as I do that,   you'll notice I get the crosshairs. And let's  say I put it right here. So, I'm drawing where   the link will be, and I'll just put it on this  one spot. Now, what do I want to happen? Well,   a visible rectangle or invisible line style,  dashed, solid, underline. So, you can pick this   customization as you want. What do you want to  have happen? Do you want to open a web page or do   file? Maybe it'll open another  file. So, if I was going to put open a web page,   I put next and I can just put the URL of the  web page in here. So now notice if I go back   to all tools and viewing it like this, there's the  dash around the rectangle here. As I hover over,   I'm getting the link one here. So as I click on  it, it opens up. It just opened up on my other   window here. If you want to remove these, you can  go back to edit a PDF. You'll see that we can go   back to the link options on this add or editor  link or remove web links. So, if it was a file,   that wouldn't be a web link. So, you would have  to go to add it or edit and then delete it. But,   if I remove all web links, and it's going to go  through, hit okay. And now it's gone. So,   just another thing that you can add to your PDF  documents. But you'll see you can add other things   like buttons where you could click a button and  it will open a file or website or make a sound.    All these different options. Now, the other  way I want to show you how to navigate, if if

we move over to the side over here, I want you to  take a look at bookmarks. So, if I click on book   uh the bookmarks here, I if I have a really long  document, I could set bookmarks to help navigate.    So, if I was saying, let's say on this first, I'll  just highlight this here. And if I click on the   bookmark, notice that uh I could call it whatever  I want. So, even if I said just page one, and I'm   going to go down now, and I'll just highlight this  here, and I'm going to click on this, and I'll   call this page two. And as I go through now, if I  click on page one, it just jumps up to that part,   that bookmark where I put it in. So, if you have a  long uh document that you're trying to go through,   this way would be an easy way to navigate. Another  thing I want to point out are the thumbnails over   here. So, if I click on here, it shows you uh  the different thumbnails. And you have some   functionality here of what you can do. So, if I  grab this page, drag it. Notice how I can alter   things around. We have the delete here. We have  the rotate just like I showed you before. Just   some other ways to uh change your PDF around and  navigate in Adobe Acrobat. Now, what about editing

pages in the order or adding more PDFs? Take a  look at this. So, if I go back to edit a PDF,   we have organize pages. Up here, we can do a  few things. We can go rotate a page, right? So,   if I click on it, I can and I'll zoom out so you  can see this. So, if I zoom to width, you can see   how it turned that page. Now, I don't want it to  the right. I just wanted to show you how to do   that. I just undid. We can even crop pages. So,  if I go ahead and select a certain part of this   and hit enter, I can go ahead and hit okay, and it  just made that crop to it. So, you can make these   quick adjustments. I'm going to go to undo again.   We can delete a page or we can extract a page.    What I like to do is go to organize page. So, when  I get to organ organize page here, now I only have   three pages. I can quickly change the orders of  these. So if I wanted three to be before two,   I can just simply drag it. And if I resaved it,  that would be the new order. Whenever I click   on any pages, notice I can go ahead and delete  here. I can do the rotate here as well. And we   have more options to insert from file, clipboard,  scanner, web page, or I could cut or copy as well.    If I wanted to have another uh PDF in here. What  I could do is go to insert. I could go from file.    I'll go to the same one. I have another PDF in  here and hit open. And where do I want it? After   or I could go before. I'm going to leave it here.   Page number. You can see I'm going to hit okay. It   placed this PDF right inside of here. And I could  still make the change to drag it wherever I would   like. Adobe Acrobat makes it so easy to manage  your pages from deleting to organizing everything,   combining files. Like I've said many times, you  can do the same thing in multiple ways in Adobe   Acrobat. For another example, if I go to organize  pages, you can see how it brings me to the same   page that I was on before to organize these. Let's  spend a little bit of time on the commenting and

markup tools in Adobe Acrobat. If I go up to the  very top here, you can see I've showed you the   select tool. Whenever I see a little arrow on  these, that means there's more. If I click and   hold on my mouse, it will show me. If you want to  know the difference between select and pen, I'll   show you. So, if I'm under select, I'm going to  hold control and on my mouse, I'm going to scroll   up. So, it's going to zoom in. But, if I move over  to pen, what pen does, it allows me to grab. And   if I'm holding down on my mouse, I can move the  page around this way. So that's between select   and pan. I'm going to zoom out a bit. Now, let's  start with the comments. We have comments right   here. If I click on this little triangle, it shows  me all the different types of comments we can add.    I'm not going to go through every one of these,  but I'll go through a couple as an example. So,   under this first one, we can just add a comment,  general comment to anything. So, if I go ahead   and even if it was adding something right here,  as soon as I uh let go of what I highlighted,   I can add my comment. So it could be, you know,  I could say change the title and I could actually   even if I click on this, I could go and assign  it to someone else in the organization and they   would be notified uh that they were supposed  to make this change. Then I can go ahead and post   it. So you'll see now if I hover over top of it,  I get this comment down below where it says change   title. Now another thing you can do if I go back  to the comment and I'll just use another example.    We'll go to replace selected text and then you'll  see the difference between each of these. If I   select this one now, if I was just highlighting  this area through here, notice that it's a strike   through. So, it looks like a replace. I would  could make a comment and tell them to change   with something and then use the um at here to make  sure the right person gets noticed of it. And I   can go ahead and post it. And then you'll see as  I hover over different ways how the how you how   you can see the different comments in it. Now if  I go back you can see all the different ones that   you can go from an insert text to even attach file  ones. As we continue on these are going to be your   quick markups with the highlights and underlining.   So we can change the color very quickly. If I on   highlighter I could just move my mouse over.   Here's the color right here. So if I wanted it   to be a different color, you can see how quickly  I can make that adjustment to it. If we look at   underline, we can go and just do the same thing  of highlighting it gets underline and we have   the quick strike through this where sorry the if  I better go to strike through this strike through   right here gives it and then the color is in. So  those are pretty easy to add in. Other ways we can   have some markup is through these. We could simply  draw. So if we go to draw, you can see how I can   draw whatever I would like. But if we go through  the entire list, we can add the different shapes.    So if you need it to point to something, you can  add those to it. You can also see that we have   uh a text call out. So if you wanted to bring  attention to something like this, and then   we can go ahead and write in here and point to  something. I'm going to go to uh the bottom one,   we have a stamp. So, if we go to the stamp, you  can see the different ones that we have it. So,   if we wanted it to be I'll add this one. We  can go ahead and fill up this information for   identity setup. I'm just going to put complete,  but then I can stamp it wherever I'd like. So,   as I pick different ones, you can see how I can  mark these up. So, there's lots of different ways   that you can add comments, mark up uh to your  documents. This is great for collaboration,   especially when you can assign people to. Next,  we'll take a look at how we can add a signature.

I forgot to mention, if you ever want to check  your comments, just go over here. You can see all   the different comments. You can edit and reply  to them from this one place as well. Now, if I   go over to the signature, this is where I was a  moment ago. I can click and add a signature here.    But like I said, there's multiple ways to get to  the same thing. We could go over to the side here   and go fill and sign. Now, what I can do is just  add my signature. And when I click on this, you'll   see it opens up here. And if I click on type, it  just draws. It will just type in my name from what   I have this registered as. And I can change  the style. If I wanted it to be differently,   I can make those adjustments. But I can also go  ahead. I'm going to just clear this. And I could   draw my name in. So, if I wanted to quickly  scribble my name with my mouse here, like so,   I could apply that or I could grab it as an image  that maybe I've taken, brought that in, and that   will be in. So, I'm going to have save signature,  hit apply, and it's attached to my mouse until I   click it will uh go. So, if I click here, this  is where it applied. I can still move it around,   though. So, as soon as I click off of it, I can  size it as well, so I can get it right in the   right place, or I can delete it. Now, the nice  thing is since it's saved, if I want this again,   I can just click on it and I could sign something  else and I can place it wherever I would like. We   can do the same thing with the initials and that  can save you a lot of time if you have those long   list of initials you have to do on a paper. You  can also save as a certified copy. I'm not going   to go through this in this one, but if you want  it to uh have that certified copy with an audit   trail, you can save it here and it will walk you  through the steps. So I'm going to come out with a   different video more about the security of using  Adobe now. And the other thing I want to point   out, you can request e sign e signature. So if  I click on this, notice that I can add the email   and a name and it will prepare the document for a  place. It will get sent to them as a read only and   it will get them to sign it. So I can add multiple  people that would need to sign recipients and I   can click off this to say recipients must sign in  order. So once you do that, and again I'll do a   different video that gets more into this type of  the signatures on it, but this is a nice way just

to quickly add a signature to your PDFs. I have  this image inside my demo files here. So this is   just a PNG file. You can see example pick PNG. I  can't grab the text or anything. I want to show   you how you can take an image or a scan document,  bring it into Adobe Acrobat, and edit it. So I'm   going to close this down. I'm going to go to over  to create because since this is the PNG I can't go   to file go to menu and then open. Open is only  going to show me the PFDs. I'm going to go to   create. I'm going to select a file and in this way  I will see all the different files I can. So this   is the example one I showed you. So now I can just  go ahead and click create. Now I do have this up   here being mentioned here. So as scan document has  been identified. scan and OCR tool can turn scans   or images into editable PDFs. It even shows me a  get started. It brought me to and I'm going to go   back uh I'm going to go back a step here. It just  brought me to this over here. So, at this point,   you can see how you can enhance the scan file  if I wanted to enhance it. This is one is pretty   good. So, it's I clicked under recognize text.   As soon as I do that, what I notice is that I can   highlight the text. Before I couldn't. It didn't  recognize it. I'm not in edit mode right now. I   notice this is picking up as a picture. Sometimes  I'll run through it again, but uh let's go back   here. I'm going to go to edit PDF. And now as soon  as I click on this, it's performing our scan. It's   converting this into an editable uh PDF. So when  I click in it, I can go to any of these and I can   delete. I can write whatever I would like in it  instead. So, this came up as a picture. Let's go   back. Sometimes what happens is if I go back to  scan and we're going to try to enhance one   more time. I've done this before where it just uh  second time when I come back and notice right now   I can select it. So now if I go back to my edit  PDF, I bet you now if I click on it again, I can   look at these. I can recognize when I click in it,  I can see text is coming up. So, it's not an image   anymore. So, I can make any changes to this right  here. So, I just wanted to point out how you can   take an image and you could be scanning things uh  even if it's as a PDF, you can open it as a PDF or   uh create it as an image as well and use OCR and  enhance it to pull out the text and edit it. AI

assistant in Adobe Acrobat is going to save you a  lot of time. I'm going to demo it on some research   papers, but you could apply this to so many  different things, whether it be in education   or your business. Over on the left, you can see  there's AI assistant and generative summary. We   have Ask AI here, Ask AI assistant, and we also  have the generative summary. So, just different   ways to get to the same thing. If I click on  generative summary here, what it's going to do   is it's going to go through this paper and create  a detailed summary. And everything is going to be   cited. you're going to see the little numbers and  when you click on the little numbers it will take   you to that part of the paper and it will show  you where it's coming from. So here's the examples   right here. If I click on a number it brings  me to where it is in the document. So that's   generative summary. If I go to AI assistant now  you'll get an idea of what it can do for you. It   can understand get summaries explanations. It can  analyze this document further. It can even draft   or enhance content based on this document. It's  even some even giving me some suggestions what I   could ask it. What I want to ask down here is what  is the paradox mentioned in the title. So I can   send that and it's going to go through this and  find it. And again, I like how it's cited right   inside of this so I can find exactly. So here's  the where they mention the paradox. We can see   there's a few different sources and citations. I  click on it. It brings me to it. It's highlighted,   easy to find it. So I can document everything's  going to be based in this paper. Now the other   thing is I can add more files. So if I was going  to go on this computer, I have some more research   papers here and I want to pick this one right  here, alternative to electric. So now I have these   two different files in here. And I could go ahead  after it process the document. I'm going to ask   if it can find any uh similarities between the  two of them. So, here's my questions. Are there   any connections between the two documents? I'm  going to send this off. And here's the connections   that it found. Now, notice as I hover over the  different citations, I can see what paper it's   coming from. So, in this one is the alternatives  to electric cars. If I hover over this one,   this is the Paradox one. So, I can see they are  actually pulling. AI assistant is pulling from   both of these to find exactly what I'm looking  for. The amount of time this can save when   you're researching or looking through business  files could be tremendous. When you're all done

editing your PDFs, there's a number of different  ways that you can save it and share it. Now,   I want to point out one thing with saving. I've  been saving to my computer the entire time. You   can save to the cloud as well. So when if I click  this, this would upload it to Adobe cloud to save   and then I can access it from any device as long  I'm as I'm logged into my account. If I go to my   home, you'll see files your documents,  this is my Adobe cloud storage here and this is   the scan that I just when I click that cloud, it  uploaded it to it. So not only on the computer,   you can upload it to the cloud. Now, the other  thing I want to point out is we've been saving   as PDFs, but you can export it as so many  different things. So, this PDF I've showed you   just to hit save and it will save as a PDF, but  you can export this PDF too, as a Word document,   as an Excel document, as PowerPoint, as an image.   So, all of these different things you can export   it as. You'll also notice that you have things  from reduce size PDF. So you can go through and   make sure you get the final format that you  need. And that's a look at how you can use   Adobe Acrobat to edit, organize, and even get  help from AI Assistant to understand your PDFs   faster. If you found this helpful, don't forget  to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for   more tech tutorials like this. And if you'd like  to try Acrobat for yourself, there's a link down   below in the description. Thanks so much for  watching, and I'll see you in the next video.