How to use JavaScript on Acrobat DC

JavaScript is the cross-platform scripting language of the Adobe Acrobat family of products that includes
Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard, and Adobe Reader. Through JavaScript extensions, the viewer
application and its plug-ins expose much of their functionality to document authors, form designers, and
plug-in developers.

This functionality includes the following features, among others:

Processing forms within the document.
Batch processing collections of PDF documents.
Developing and maintaining online collaboration schemes.
Communicating with local databases.
Controlling multimedia events.

In addition to being available in Acrobat and Adobe Reader, the objects, properties, and methods for the
Acrobat extensions for JavaScript can also be accessed through Microsoft Visual Basic to automate the
processing of PDF documents. See the Interapplication Communication API Reference for details.