The beta version of Adobe's AI Assistant is now available to help you navigate and work on large documents more easily.
The AI Assistant in Acrobat can suggest questions about a document's content and then answer those questions, so you don't have to search through the entire file.
New Experience with large documents
Adobe is adding a new creative AI experience to PDF management software Acrobat, which aims to "completely transform the digital document experience" by making it easier to find and understand information in large documents.
Announced in Adobe's press release as the “AI Assistant in Acrobat,” the new tool is described as a “conversation engine” that can summarize files, answer questions, and suggest more based on content, allowing users to “easily chat with documents” and get the information they need. It's available in beta for users with Acrobat Standard, Pro, and Teams subscriptions.
The chatbot will reduce time-consuming tasks on huge documents – such as helping students quickly find information for research projects or summarizing long reports for use in emails, meetings and presentations. AI Assistant in Acrobat can be used with all supported document formats such as PDF, Word and PowerPoint. The chatbot complies with Adobe's data security protocols and will not store data from customer documents or be used to train the AI Assistant.
Creative flexibility
The AI Assistant tool in Adobe Acrobat can evaluate the content of a document and suggest questions for users, in addition to answering questions about the content. The feature also generates reports that allow users to verify the source of answers provided by AI Assistant and create links that jump directly to specific information within large documents. Acrobat users can also ask the chatbot to consolidate and format information into digestible copy for use in emails, reports, presentations and more.
AI Assistant will be available to these customers "at no additional cost" while the product is in beta. However, Reader and Acrobat users will have access to the full range of AI Assistant capabilities through a new subscription add-on program once AI Assistant is out of beta.
Adobe hasn't said how long AI Assistant is expected to be in beta, but the company already has a roadmap of future capabilities. These include integrations with the artificial intelligence model that Firefly builds, the ability to pull information from multiple documents, document types, and sources simultaneously, as well as capabilities for first draft and copy editing
