Check draft quotes against cited source pages
Get the source data and prepare the review

Documentation-verified component path; proposed adaptation, not tested

WHAT WAS CHECKED
Official public documentation checked 2026-10-15; no account, source-data acquisition, prompt run or end-to-end workflow was tested. Menus/features are vendor-documented; prompts, field maps and human gates are editorial adaptations. No actual client work, account login, installation, connection, external write or site edit occurred.

BEFORE YOU START
- Frozen draft, verified cited-source set and an authorized reviewer; the reviewer supplies source identity and canonical reference, not AI web replacement research.
- Existing firm-approved Acrobat Studio, AI Assistant add-on, or another plan including Acrobat AI; online services/cloud storage, language and region must be permitted. No purchase, login or connection is part of this verification. The manual route works without AI.
- Preserve original evidence unchanged in restricted storage. Use synthetic material first. Prepare a separate, explicitly approved minimized AI input; aliases alone do not anonymize narrative or attachments. Do not upload raw originals or an alias key merely because another tab/file is sanitized.

DATA ACQUISITION LIMITS
- Literal concordance is not authority validation, legal support, citation-rule compliance or good-law status. Extracted text can lose emphasis, punctuation and surrounding context.

WHEN THIS CAN RUN
Blocked until actual sources, permissions and required human approvals are supplied; no real inputs were available in this verification.

STEP 1: Freeze the approved draft for quote inventory
Tool: Word/Acrobat
Open: Open the actual frozen draft DOCX/PDF
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Preserve the original and record draft version and in-scope sections. Obtain explicit approval for the bounded draft text that can enter Adobe processing, using a synthetic/public draft first. If only excerpts are approved, record their scope and do not promise a whole-brief check.

Expected output: Approved frozen draft input and scope manifest.
Use it next: Load this actual approved draft into PDF Spaces for the first quote-inventory pass.
Check: The first AI pass can propose inventory; a person must still check coverage against the whole intended draft.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/create-pdf-spaces.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reusing-pdf-content.html

STEP 2: Load only the approved AI input
Tool: Acrobat PDF Spaces
Open: Acrobat homepage > PDF Spaces > Create a PDF Space > upload files or Paste copied text > Add to PDF Space
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Add the approved frozen draft or explicitly bounded draft excerpt set and scope manifest.  Use clear source/version labels and verify the Files panel. Do not add originals that have not separately been cleared for Adobe processing.

Expected output: Visible approved source set in the PDF Space; no account integration is implied.
Use it next: Use the AI Assistant message field in this same space for the next prompt.
Check: Confirm every named source is actually loaded and readable. PDF Spaces supports up to 100 files, 100 MB and 600 pages per file; unsupported/password-protected/handwritten material blocks affected extraction.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/create-pdf-spaces.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/supported-formats-limitations.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/pdf-spaces-faq.html

STEP 3: Run the bounded prompt and inspect citations
Tool: Acrobat AI Assistant
Open: The PDF Space AI Assistant message field
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Paste the prompt below. Open each source-number citation, check it, and use Copy to transfer the answer into a new local Word document or text file. Correct errors using the originals before reliance.

PASTE THIS PROMPT
From this supplied frozen draft only, propose an inventory of every visible quotation occurrence and its nearby cited reference. Return draft_version,citation_id,draft_locator or null,exact quoted_text,cited_reference as written,cited_page_label as written or null,editorial_changes_or_emphasis_flag,uncertainty. Preserve punctuation, capitalization, numbers, ellipses and brackets. Do not invent missing citations or locators, resolve legal references, search for authorities or change the draft. Include a coverage statement and ambiguous quotation candidates for human checking.

Expected output: Proposed quote inventory to check before source acquisition.
Use it next: Save the checked draft as quote-inventory-review.docx; carry source IDs, versions and reviewer corrections into the next review step.
Check: Human reads the intended draft scope line by line, corrects omissions/splits/quote boundaries and confirms every citation ID; unsupported inventory completeness is not accepted.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/use-acrobat-ai/generative-ai-features/ai-get-answers.html

STEP 4: Acquire the actual cited source pages after inventory review
Tool: Word and Acrobat
Open: Open frozen draft; open supplied source PDFs > page navigation and Select text
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Using the preceding reviewed inventory, open each actual supplied cited source. Visually map its printed page label to PDF page index, and copy/check the cited page text. Retain the corrected draft citation IDs, exact quote text and editorial-change/emphasis flags. Confirm source identity and canonical reference from the lawyer-approved catalog. Missing sources or locators remain null/unresolved; do not obtain replacement authority from AI.

Expected output: citation inventory plus reviewer-verified source catalog and printed-page/PDF-index map.
Use it next: Make a minimized citation-check input, optionally using the supplied JSON kit; upload/paste that actual reviewed text rather than assuming a local JSON is visible.
Check: Do not use a document filename or an AI citation to establish source identity; never map printed page numbers by arithmetic alone.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/reusing-pdf-content.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/get-started/learn-the-basics/navigation.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/word/compare-document-differences-using-the-legal-blackline-option

STEP 5: Load only the approved AI input
Tool: Acrobat PDF Spaces
Open: Acrobat homepage > PDF Spaces > Create a PDF Space > upload files or Paste copied text > Add to PDF Space
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Add the checked citation inventory, approved source-page text and explicit page map.  Use clear source/version labels and verify the Files panel. Do not add originals that have not separately been cleared for Adobe processing.

Expected output: Visible approved source set in the PDF Space; no account integration is implied.
Use it next: Use the AI Assistant message field in this same space for the next prompt.
Check: Confirm every named source is actually loaded and readable. PDF Spaces supports up to 100 files, 100 MB and 600 pages per file; unsupported/password-protected/handwritten material blocks affected extraction.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/create-pdf-spaces.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/supported-formats-limitations.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/explore-pdf-spaces/pdf-spaces-faq.html

STEP 6: Run the bounded prompt and inspect citations
Tool: Acrobat AI Assistant
Open: The PDF Space AI Assistant message field
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Paste the prompt below. Open each source-number citation, check it, and use Copy to transfer the answer into a new local Word document or text file. Correct errors using the originals before reliance.

PASTE THIS PROMPT
Use only the supplied draft version, citation inventory, verified source catalog and verified source pages. Match unique source_id plus cited printed-page label; missing, duplicate or unverified keys are unresolved. Compare cited_reference literally to supplied canonical_reference without deciding which is correct. Empty quotes or editorial-change/emphasis/ellipsis flags require manual_quote_review. For other quotes, allow only whitespace normalization; preserve punctuation, capitalization and numbers. Check the exact cited page first, then other supplied verified pages of the same source. Return citation_id,draft_locator,source_id,cited_page_label,observed_page_label or null,PDF page or null,status,evidence,reviewer_action. Use quote_mismatch or found_on_other_page where warranted. Account for every row. Do not search for replacement authority, invent citations, validate legal support/good-law status, edit a brief or declare filing readiness.

Expected output: Literal quote/source concordance exceptions and counts of checked/unresolved/manual-review rows.
Use it next: Save the checked draft as quote-concordance-review.docx; carry source IDs, versions and reviewer corrections into the next review step.
Check: Check every apparent match visually for emphasis, punctuation and context; missing source/page evidence must remain unresolved.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/use-acrobat-ai/generative-ai-features/ai-get-answers.html

STEP 7: Human review and final handoff
Tool: Responsible staff reviewer and lawyer/process owner
Open: Local reviewed report beside the frozen source set
Access needed: See recipe prerequisites; exact account entitlement and permissions not observed.

Lawyer checks original pages, canonical reference, citation form, quote alterations/context and authority status separately. Any draft change invalidates the old comparison for affected citations.

Expected output: Reviewed clerical concordance report tied to frozen draft/source versions.
Use it next: No automatic correction, replacement authority or filing submission.
Check: All unresolved or unreadable evidence stays open. No inferred approval or external action follows from AI output.
Documentation limit: Sources support named component capabilities. Capture fields, prompts and review requirements are the proposed adaptation, not promised native export columns.
Source documentation:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/use-acrobat-ai/generative-ai-features/ai-get-answers.html

ACCOUNT AND SOURCE CHECKS STILL NEEDED
- Actual account access, source versions/completeness, privacy approval and reviewer sign-off were not observed.

USING THE FILES IN THIS KIT
Use the exact files or source text named in the steps above. Native exports keep their own headers. The kit tables are editorial review worksheets; they are not a claim that a product exports those fields. Some routes use reviewed text directly or require additional original files. Never rename an unreviewed raw export to make it appear mapped. Keep expected-result files separate from inputs.

The source account, actual data, prompts and end-to-end workflow were not tested. Any final communication, filing, permission change, payment or publication needs its own authorized human action. This guide performs none.