I use Firefox as a PDF reader at work. it's better than Adobe Reader or Chrome, and it's good enough, so I haven't bothered finding something else.

I deal with secure information sometimes, in PDF form. I haven't even considered that this information might not remain local.

If your company has an enterprise/privacy agreement with Adobe, it might be considered addressed, similar to the millions of companies using Microsoft 365 and Sharepoint.

If, OTOH, it's a "free" feature of Adobe, it could be eating your company's data without constraints.

If the latter, let us know your company's name so that we can avoid it.

No way in hell? My understanding is that an NPU could perform that type of processing locally. I welcome info & correction!

(I know other types of local ai processors could too, but there’s little chance Acrobat would be geared to look for them - even GPUs - unlike NPUs.)

Now if we switch to talking about policy instead of capability, I don’t think Adobe would miss a chance to be evil. So yeah they’re probably stealing all the data they possibly can.