In an effort to “completely transform the digital document experience,” Adobe is integrating a new generative AI experience into its Acrobat PDF management software. This feature will make it simpler to locate and comprehend content within lengthy documents. The new tool, dubbed “AI Assistant in Acrobat” in an Adobe news release, is billed as a “conversational engine” that enables users to “easily chat with documents” to obtain the information they require. It can summarize files, respond to inquiries, and suggest more content depending on the content. Beta access to it is open to users of paid Acrobat starting today.
The chatbot is supposed to lessen the laborious chores associated with interacting with large text documents. Examples of these jobs include assisting students in finding information for research projects fast and condensing lengthy reports into concise highlights for emails, meetings, and presentations. All document types supported by the program, including Word and PowerPoint, can be utilized with AI Assistant in Acrobat. Following Adobe’s data security guidelines, the chatbot won’t save client document data or use it for AI Assistant training.
In addition to responding to inquiries regarding the substance of a document, AI Assistant can evaluate its contents at launch and suggest questions that users might want to investigate. Additionally, the function can create clickable links that take users straight to specific material within lengthy texts and generate citations that let users check the source of the answers AI Assistant provides. Users of Acrobat can also request that the chatbot compile and format data into easily readable copy for a variety of purposes, including emails, reports, and presentations.
Customers of Acrobat can access the new AI Assistant experience on desktop and web platforms through the Standard ($12.99 per month), Pro ($19.99 per month), and Teams subscription options. Those clients will have access to AI Assistant “at no additional cost” while the software is in beta testing. The Verge was informed by Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president of Adobe Document Cloud, that “after AI Assistant is out of beta, Reader and Acrobat customers will have access to the full range of AI Assistant capabilities through a new add-on subscription plan.”
Adobe has not disclosed the duration of AI Assistant’s beta testing, but it has published a roadmap outlining the features it intends to provide in the future. These consist of capabilities for creating first drafts and modifying copy, integrations with its Firefly generative AI model, and the capacity to extract data simultaneously from several documents, document kinds, and sources.
