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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Adobe.\n\nCharles Geschke co-founded Adobe with John Warnock in 1982, after the two worked together at Xerox PARC, and co-created PostScript and the PDF format with him. He was Adobe's chief operating officer from 1986 to 1994, its president from 1989 to 2000 and co-chairman of its board from 1997 to 2017.\n\n## What Charles builds\n\n- [Adobe Acrobat Sign](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-acrobat-sign.md), graded D, 52.6/100, in Contracts, proposals \u0026 e-signatures. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe Commerce (Magento)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-commerce.md), graded B, 63.9/100, in Commerce \u0026 checkout. Commerce platform from Adobe, built on the open-source Magento core. It runs as Adobe Commerce as a Cloud Service, on Adobe's cloud infrastructure or on the merchant's own servers, and agents reach a store through its REST and GraphQL APIs. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe Firefly API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-firefly.md), graded D, 49.1/100, in Image generation. Adobe's Firefly image models (Image 3, Image 4 Standard and Ultra, Image 5) as async REST endpoints within Firefly Services. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n- [Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/adobe-pdf-extract.md), graded C, 55.9/100, in Document parsing \u0026 extraction. Adobe's REST API for reading and changing PDFs. Co-founder, Adobe, researched 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Christopher Shifflett](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/christopher-shifflett/), Director of Product Management, Firefly API Platform and Developer Tools\n- [John Warnock](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/john-warnock/), Co-founder, Adobe\n- [Marcel Boucher](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/marcel-boucher/), Product leader, Firefly Services; 2025 Director, FFE Solution Acceleration\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Charles Geschke?\n\nCharles Geschke co-founded Adobe with John Warnock in 1982, after the two worked together at Xerox PARC, and co-created PostScript and the PDF format with him. He was Adobe's chief operating officer from 1986 to 1994, its president from 1989 to 2000 and co-chairman of its board from 1997 to 2017.\n\n### What does Adobe make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Adobe Acrobat Sign, Adobe Commerce (Magento), Adobe Firefly API and Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API from Adobe. Adobe Acrobat Sign is an e-signature service. Its REST API v6 creates agreements from uploaded files or library templates, sends them for signature, returns signing URLs and audit trails, and reports status through webhooks.\n\n### How are Charles's tools graded?\n\nAdobe Acrobat Sign is graded D, 52.6 out of 100; Adobe Commerce (Magento) is graded B, 63.9 out of 100; Adobe Firefly API is graded D, 49.1 out of 100; Adobe PDF Services / PDF Extract API is graded C, 55.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://developer.adobe.com/acrobat-sign/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/developer-support\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Warnock\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Geschke\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/contributor/community/\n- https://www.google.com/search?q=site.adobe.com+%22Firefly+API%22+%22product%22+manager\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophershifflett\n- https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe.html\n- https://developer.adobe.com/firefly-services/docs/guides/support/\n- https://airtable.com/appu5RTWgdM95jynx/pagyuT1qspNJcPU2E/form\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/faq/tech-support/\n- https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/pdf-extract-api/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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