HVACVisor vs Adobe Acrobat — Quick Breakdown (2025)

Adobe Acrobat has been around forever and people assume it can OCR anything. In reality, it does fine on normal office PDFs but completely falls apart the second you throw actual HVAC/MEP-style documents at it.

HVACVisor is tuned for drawings, tags, labels, and the messed-up photos we all take on job sites. Adobe is tuned for scanned invoices and contracts.

Where HVACVisor Just Does Better

• Reads tiny printed labels on mechanical drawings
• Finds equipment callouts and legend text
• Handles sideways/rotated pages without thinking
• Doesn’t freak out on low-contrast scans
• Pulls out part numbers, valve IDs, wire labels
• Works on iPhone/Android photos of field docs

You get usable text right away without trying to “clean” the document first.

Where Adobe Still Has an Edge

• Converting clean scans to searchable PDFs
• Editing text inside PDFs
• Filling/signing forms
• Bulk document manipulation

Basically: everything except technical OCR.

Quick Comparison