Adobe is adding a new generative AI experience to its Acrobat PDF management software that aims to “completely transform the digital document experience” by making it easier to find and understand information in long documents. Billed as the “AI Assistant in Acrobat” in Adobe’s press release, the new tool is described as a “conversational engine” that can summarize files, answer questions and more depending on the content. can recommend, allowing users to “easily chat with documents”. Get the information they need. It’s available in beta starting today for paid Acrobat users.
The idea is that chatbots will reduce time-consuming tasks related to working with large-scale text documents – such as helping students quickly find information for research projects or large reports for emails, meetings and presentations. Summarizing it into quick highlights. The AI Assistant in Acrobat can be used with all document formats supported by the app, including Word and PowerPoint. The chatbot follows Adobe’s data protection protocols, so it won’t store data from customer documents or use it to train the AI assistant.
At launch, the AI assistant can assess the content of a document and recommend questions users might want to know, in addition to answering questions about that content. The feature also generates citations that allow users to verify the source of answers provided by the AI assistant and can create clickable links that jump directly to specific information within longer documents. Acrobat users can also ask the chatbot to consolidate and format information into one digestible copy for emails, reports, presentations, and more.
The new AI Assistant experience is available to Acrobat customers on Standard ($12.99 per month), Pro ($19.99 per month), and Teams subscription plans on both desktop and web. The AI assistant will be available “at no additional cost” to customers while the product is in beta. However, Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president of Adobe Document Cloud, told The Verge: “Reader and Acrobat customers will be able to a new add-on subscription plan once the AI Assistant is out of beta. ”
Adobe hasn’t revealed how long the AI assistant is expected to be in beta, but the company has laid out a roadmap of future features it plans to roll out. These include integration with its Firefly generative AI models, the ability to pull information from multiple documents, document types and sources at once, and features for creating first drafts and editing copy.