How does AI Assistant in Acrobat work?

AI Assistant

• Ask questions about a document, including non-PDF file types, and receive easy-to-understand answers with attribution.
• Using responses from AI Assistant, you can consume information from documents and create impactful content based on documents faster than ever — draft and share content for emails, presentations, meeting notes, research summaries, and more.
• AI Assistant also helps break down complex contract language into key details, making it easy to read, understand, and compare contracts directly in Acrobat.
• AI Assistant can also help you get more out of meetings by quickly generating meeting summaries from transcripts — helping you save time by identifying key points, topics, and action items.

PDF Spaces

• PDF Spaces is an AI-powered conversational knowledge hub that transforms how you consume and work with your documents. Easily consolidate multiple files to ask questions via a prebuilt or personalized AI Assistant, summarize content, compare documents, or create new material — all in one space. PDF Spaces is about getting your files to work together with AI so you can help save time, reduce busy work, and focus on what matters most.

Generative summary

• With generative summary, you can get an easy-to-read outline with headings and section-specific key points to help focus on what matters in a streamlined way. Easily find, discern, and navigate to essential information you need on demand.

Voice capabilities

• Voice in AI Assistant and PDF Spaces on Acrobat Mobile makes it easy to engage with your document, and Handsfree Voice Chat reduces that friction even further by enabling natural voice conversations without screen interaction. You can ask questions, hear responses, and interrupt as needed to ask additional questions, providing a more intuitive interaction. Handsfree support is available only on Mobile and can be accessed from AI Assistant chat panel – both for single documents and PDF Spaces.
• Additionally, users can also listen instead of read, with voice read-aloud capabilities on all surfaces including, Acrobat Desktop and Web. Read aloud with high-quality voices can be accessed from the top bar in document viewer.

AI Assistant can help users accelerate document comprehension (across single or multiple documents) help transform productivity:

• Summarize crucial concepts and themes from the document.
• Get one-click summaries with generative summary.
• Explore content using suggested questions.
• Ask questions and receive answers with cited references.
• Summarize contract key terms and highlight the differences between contracts.

Communicate with impact and save time by using AI Assistant to help create content based on your documents.

• Create content from their documents for emails, presentations, meeting notes, and more.
• Come up with ideas for blog posts, articles, and research topics.

Get inspired: See how others have incorporated AI Assistant into their everyday work.

• Acrobat users with an individual account can access this feature in Acrobat Reader desktop and the Acrobat desktop application on both Windows and macOS, the Acrobat web application, Acrobat mobile applications (iOS and Android), and in their Acrobat Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge extensions. Visit Generative AI in Adobe Document Cloud applications or more detailed information on surface feature availability.
• AI Assistant is available to try without an Adobe account.
• Generative AI features in Acrobat are available for Teams, Enterprise VIP, and Enterprise ETLA customers. Learn more about Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant for business. Eligible students and teachers can learn more about AI Assistant for education.

Yes, a separate add-on plan for full access is available to new and existing Acrobat customers. Acrobat customers do not need to have an existing Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Standard plan to purchase. See the plans page for additional details.

Currently, AI Assistant in Acrobat supports PDFs and documents in English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese with plans to add additional languages in future releases. AI Assistant may inadvertently provide responses in languages other than English, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, but these go beyond the intended purpose of the AI Assistant capability and should not be relied upon at this time.

At this time, this feature works for PDF, DOCX, PPT, TXT, RTF files and documents that meet certain criteria. Currently, it does not support the following types of files:

1. Files exceeding 100MB in size per document.
2. Files that contain more than 600 pages.
3. Files with permissions that are configured in a way that prevents processing, such as being password-protected or having the “do not copy” permission enabled.
4. Files in languages other than English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Adobe does  not  use customer content to train the generative AI models that deliver Acrobat features. Learn more here about Adobe’s content usage and handling practices.

Creating, uploading, or sharing content that violates a third-party copyright is prohibited. You should seek legal advice if you suspect that your content may violate any third-party copyrights.

Visit the AI Assistant in Acrobat HelpX page to discover more about AI Assistant in Acrobat. To learn more about purchasing AI Assistant for Acrobat add-on plan, see the plans page for details.

An AI workspace is a place where you can use AI tools and technology to add productivity and efficiency to your workflows, projects, and document processes.

A trusted AI workspace like Adobe Acrobat Studio gives you an all-in-one space to complete document tasks and create your best work using AI Assistant to chat with documents, analyze data, summarize content, build standout work, and more. AI-generated summaries and other outputs are accompanied with trusted, precise citations. With Acrobat Studio, you can work confidently knowing your data is highly secure.

Acrobat AI Assistant stands out by delivering generative summaries with precise citations you can trust. It also features multi-doc capabilities, so you can add multiple files and sources to your PDF Space, then use AI Assistant to uncover insights, generate summaries, and identify next steps.

Acrobat Studio is your go-to AI workspace that gives you everything you need to bring your best work together. You can combine files, get AI summaries, uncover insights, edit text and images, create documents from templates, share work, and collaborate on projects – all in one place.

Acrobat features automatic, AI-powered text and layout recognition when scanned documents or images are converted into editable PDFs. Smart formatting suggestions are provided when editing PDFs, such as font adjustments, text alignment, and style matching. AI-powered structure tools ensure formatting remains consistent when reorganizing content. Autotagging and accessibility enhancements identify document structure (like headings, lists, and tables) for easier reading, accessibility, and compliance.

In Acrobat Studio, you can convert different file types and bring them all together in PDF Spaces, then use AI Assistant to jump-start content creation, analyze data, and uncover insights inside your documents. With Adobe Express, you can access templates and easy design tools to create documents.