Acrobat is an industry-standard PDF creator and editor program developed by Adobe. It allows you to read, print and create PDF documents from scratch, clipboard contents, scanned paperworks, and captured web pages in Chrome, IE, Firefox and Opera.

Don’t let duplicate Acrobat files eat up valuable storage space. The duplicates will cause data disorganization and are no good for anything. Clean them up with Clone Files Checker safely!

Delete Duplicate Acrobat Files

Clone Files Checker adheres to Clean Software Association Guidelines

You may add comments, annotations and protect your document from unauthorized modification. You can set separate passwords to view and modify the file contents.

You may also choose to allow or disallow users to print the document, extract images, copy text to Clipboard, comment, fill-out form fields, insert, delete or rotate pages, sign-in document and even copy images.

With data security, your data will be encoded with 128-bit-AES. You may also choose to encrypt the attachments embedded into your document.

Adobe Acrobat makes it simpler to scan printed documents. The highly-advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology converts the image into text without needing you to type a word.

You can further change the sequence of your pages, add Table Of Contents, merge pages from multiple PDF documents. Creation of interactive forms will make it easy to get customer feedbacks with the use of option buttons, check boxes and click buttons.

Your PDF files are readable on any platform including Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, among others. Just like an electronic platform, it keeps the look and layout of your document impact.

Adobe also offers a freeware application Adobe Reader to view the PDF documents shared by your friends and colleagues. The PDF file format was created by Adobe in 1990s. These days, most browsers offer inherent functionality to view PDFs.

Acrobat keeps the original graphic appearance intact. Therefore, this file format is commonly used for magazine publications, product brochures, promotional digital materials, resumes, and digital advertisements.

There are various ways of creating PDF documents-

• Create blank PDF: You can start from scratch and create a blank PDF document, fill-up text, images, annotations and infographics.
• Create PDF from clipboard contents: Windows Clipboard is a section of your computer’s physical memory (Random Access Memory) where your computer stores copied data. This can be anything such as text, image, file/ folder path or webpage contents. You can generate a PDF document out of your Clipboard contents.
• Create PDF from scanned documents: Acrobat allows you to scan paper documents, images and convert them into PDFs with Adobe Scan app.
• Create PDF out of existing documents: Adobe Acrobat can compose a new PDF out of multiple Word documents, PDFs and other file types.

Your Acrobat document embeds the type fonts within it. It eliminates the need for others to download the fonts separately just to view or edit your document.

Adobe Acrobat allows you to insert image annotations. They are helpful to explain a specific portion of your document. For example: If you have a tabular data in your PDF, you can add a rectangle and insert an image into it.

You can export your PDF into Microsoft Word document, Excel Workbook, Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPG), OpenOffice Document, webpage and other popular file formats.

Adobe Acrobat allows reading, printing, sharing and modifying contents of your PDF with ease. Adjust margins, layouts, fit page size/ width, zoom-in and zoom-out to make the text visible.

Acrobat allows you to view your files in the Reading Mode, auto scroll down as you read the text.

Finding Duplicate Adobe Acrobat PDFs

Since duplicate files are scattered across multiple drives, folders and sub-folders, manually scanning each file is not feasible. This may take a lot of time and even months depending on the size of your data.

There is an alternative though.

Clone Files Checker is a reliable duplicate finder application that searches for duplicate PDFs according to your preference.

The regular mode scans all file types and does not limit itself to a specific file format whereas in the custom mode you choose individual file types among documents, images, videos, archives that you want to search for.

Clone Files Checker has a clean user interface. You can select multiple formats, multiple directories, drives, sub-folders and even exclude those you don’t want to scan.

However, you shouldn’t use this tool to scan for duplicates in the system drive and program files. This is because your operating system keeps copies of critical system files as part of system backup.

Although this software isn’t free, you get a fully-functional free trial to test all program features before you choose to buy it. It has an extremely simple and beginner-friendly appearance.

Unlike other duplicate scanners around, CFC’s clean installer doesn’t include any spyware, crapware and junkware.

The software has an in-house preview feature that shows file contents when you select it. This saves a lot of time and especially helpful because you don’t have to open and compare each file.

One of the prime reasons behind duplication is software glitch and user actions. Duplicates add up irrelevant search results and make it difficult to find relevant files. Your files become disorganized and you lose track of your important information.

The MD5 Hash algorithm provides faster and accurate results. The Music Search option carries out scan by comparing title text, album, track, duration and file content.

1. Download Clone Files Checker
2. Install the program on your computer and then run it.
3. Click the Add button on the left side on the folder selection area.
4. Select your desired folder in the Browse Folder dialog box.
5. Click OK.
6. Next, choose the file type you want to scan.
7. Use the All Files option for a broader scan or use the Custom Scan to narrow-down the scan to limit fewer file types. To scan PDF files, use the Documents option in the Custom scan.
8. Do you want to set limits for the file sizes? Use the File Size Filters to set minimum and maximum limits such as the range of 5 MB – 50 MB.
9. Click on Start Search and wait till the scan is finished.
10. The list of duplicates will appear in a multi-column listbox with the file name, location and file size.
11. This information will be classified in a tabular form such as All Files, Documents, Images, Videos, and Archives. This makes it easy to filter out unwanted results.
12. Review the files list and check the files you want to delete or use the automatic selection feature Select Duplicates and choose a criteria of your choice: newly modified, least modified, etc.
13. Click on Select Action and choose whether you want to move your files to the Recycle Bin or to a new folder.