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Overview

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC is a cloud-based software designed to help businesses view, sign, and annotate PDF documents from desktops, browsers, or mobile devices. Users can create customizable forms by adding various tools such as drop-down lists, barcodes, signature fields, list boxes, and more.

PDFsam is a free and open-source software that allows users to merge, split, rotate, and extract pages from PDF files. It is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems. PDFsam offers a range of features, including the ability to combine multiple PDF files, split a single PDF into smaller files, and rotate individual pages within a PDF document.