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, subscriptions are available for full access to all Acrobat AI tools. Please visit the Acrobat pricing 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.