Adobe Document Cloud and Acrobat Reader users can now access and take common actions on 18 billion PDF files located in Dropbox directly within the Adobe apps, following a new agreement between the companies.
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The iOS integrations between Acrobat Reader and Dropbox will be available in the coming months, Adobe says, with Android and web integrations to follow sometime next year, in 2016.
As part of that integration, when users open a PDF in the Dropbox app on their iOS devices, a little bubble will pop up informing them that they can work more productively with the document using Acrobat.
Adobe is also announcing new capabilities coming to its eSign service starting next month with more rolling out across the beginning of next year. They include an integration with Dropbox, as well as introduction of a drag-and-drop Workflow Designer, enhanced electronic signatures and Enterprise Mobility Management and Signature Capture. With an Adobe hook up, Dropbox could now delve deeper into a more enterprise-orientated customer base, and Adobe could get access to more consumer-facing users.
Document Cloud eSign services and Adobe Acrobat DC’s companion app Adobe eSign Manager DC also sports a few new functionality.
All you have to do to be able to enjoy this seamless integration is to add your Dropbox account to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader desktop apps.
“Our work with Dropbox … will help Adobe Document Cloud customers and people around the world be more productive with the documents at the center of their daily lives”, Lynch said. Many businesses now, require the use of digital signatures and the standard set for European Union adoption will begin in July 2016. Forrester Research estimates over 754 million documents will be signed electronically in 2017, more than three times the number in 2014.
The Adobe Product Team told ProgrammableWeb that Adobe will soon be releasing new REST and SOAP APIs that provide additional e-sign capabilities such as dynamically creating form fields on documents, the ability to specify recipient groups, and the ability to call a customized workflow process that has been created within an account.
The collaboration will help both the companies as Adobe products are used by over one billion people around the world.
Document Cloud eSign Services now allows admins to manage employee apps and devices via Android for Work. Employees can use their mobile device camera to take a photo of their handwritten signature once, then use it to sign documents thereafter.
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Adobe’s new Document cloud service will offer electronic signature management, a standout feature compared to other PDF applications. The latest eSign services integration enables users to add multiple signers, define signing order, and verify signers with multi-factor authentication.
