Fill in, sign, comment on, or save Adobe PDF files using only Adobe Reader
People around the world use free and ubiquitous Adobe® Reader® software — installed on more than 700 million desktops around the world — to read PDF documents. But when you engage with these external users, it is very likely you will want them to do more than simply read a PDF document; you will want them to fill out a form, provide feedback, or in some other way participate in your business processes.
With Adobe LiveCycle® Reader Extensions ES software, you can quickly and easily activate functionality within Adobe Reader (version 7 and above), enabling end users to save, fill in, annotate, sign, and submit PDF documents and forms — online or offline. LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES works with existing IT assets to create an automated environment for capturing information and feedback vital to helping your organization cut costs, improve customer satisfaction, speed time to market, and extend the value of your investment in enterprise applications.
Extend document-based processes outside your organization to better engage with customers, partners, constituents, and colleagues.
Improve user experiences and flexibility by extending PDF files to an offline environment.
Improve collaboration and streamline document reviews.
Enhance the security of enterprise forms and data with digital signatures.
Key capabilities
Extend business processes to internal and external parties
The ubiquity and flexibility of Adobe Reader extends the reach of your processes beyond the enterprise, while LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES enables special functionality that empowers respondents to be an active part of your key business processes, online and offline.
Improve collaboration
Internal and external parties can view, fill in, comment on, save, and return documents and forms electronically — without requiring additional costly software.
Reduce costs
Eliminating paper-based processes cuts the time and expense your organization spends printing, distributing, processing, and archiving paper-based documents by moving them online.
Provide cross-platform compatibility
With free Adobe Reader, your organization no longer has to worry about maintaining compatible platforms with external parties or mandating that customers and partners purchase proprietary or expensive client software. Adobe Reader is available on Windows®, Mac OS, UNIX®, and Linux®.
Reduce costly errors
Completing forms electronically means there is no need for your employees to re-enter data manually, thus reducing errors and processing costs.
Achieve more secure data capture and delivery
Respondents can authenticate and sign their documents before returning them, thus increasing their confidence and satisfaction while preserving sensitive information.
Enable fast and easy form completion
End users can complete and sign a form online or offline and save a copy locally for their own records.
Enhance responsiveness and satisfaction
Faster and more accurate data capture means customers and constituents receive better service.
Improve return on IT investments
Adobe PDF can be embedded with content and data from key applications and enhanced with calculations and validations to create powerful intelligent documents and forms. By offering an avenue for returning captured data to key applications via SOAP-based interfaces, LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES further leverages existing investments in critical applications and processes.
Help ensure compliance
With its ability to retain the visual format of original paper documents, Adobe PDF allows regulated industries and government agencies to conduct business using electronic documents, while ensuring that all forms, contracts, and documents meet strict regulatory guidelines.
Streamline storage and retrieval
Adobe PDF allows for easy and low-cost indexing, archiving, and retrieval of important documents, including new data provided by respondents.
Deliver competitive advantage
Your organization can ensure that product and service designs efficiently and accurately incorporate input from all key parties — even vendors and customers — to speed time to market and optimize quality.
How it works
LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES works hand in hand with Adobe Reader, which is available free of charge and easily downloaded from Adobe.com. LiveCycle Reader Extensions ES enables you to embed usage rights within an Adobe PDF document. These usage rights "turn on" functionality within Adobe Reader, so end users can view and interact with PDF documents.
Step 1. Add rights to the PDF file
Turn on functionality for Adobe Reader. You can add rights to single documents or batches of documents through the API as part of a process, or through common foundation invocation methods such as web service calls or watched folders.
Step 2. Distribute the PDF file
Make the PDF file available through whatever means you prefer, whether it is physical media, a file download, or online web access.
Step 3. Use the PDF file
Normally latent end-user capabilities are automatically activated when the rights-enabled Adobe PDF document is launched within Adobe Reader. When the user is finished working with the document, those functions are once again disabled until the user receives another rights-enabled PDF file. All of this functionality comes at no additional cost to your customers, constituents, partners, or colleagues.
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