Generative AI has grown to be a useful and common tool used by various apps and platforms for a better user experience. After examples such as Google Chrome and Google Cloud, it’s Adobe’s turn to introduce a new Adobe Acrobat generative AI experience to their Acrobat PDF management software. To provide convenience and quality at ease in Acrobat and Reader, let’s dive in to view more details of what the new Adobe Acrobat generative AI can bring to us users.
Revealing the Adobe Acrobat Generative AI
Adobe introduced their latest generative AI in beta for Acrobat and Reader on Tuesday, 20th February, featuring an AI-driven conversational engine.
The Aim
The new Adobe Acrobat generative AI seeks to “Revolutionise the digital document experience” by simplifying the process of locating and comprehending information within lengthy documents.
What Is the New Tool in Adobe Acrobat?
Described in Adobe’s press release as “AI Assistant in Acrobat”, the new tool is characterised as a “Conversational engine” capable of summarising documents, addressing inquiries, and even suggesting further content based on the context, enabling users to effortlessly engage with documents to retrieve desired information.
The Concept
The concept behind the chatbot is to streamline the labour-intensive processes associated with handling extensive textual documents — such as assisting students in promptly locating information for research assignments or condensing lengthy reports into concise highlights suitable for emails, meetings, and presentations.
The new Adobe Acrobat generative AI, or say AI assistant, is compatible with all document formats supported by the application, including Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. This adds some competition to Microsoft’s own Copilot AI. Furthermore, the chatbot adheres to Adobe’s stringent data security measures, ensuring that customer document data is not stored or utilised for AI assistant training purposes.
The Features Provided
Upon release, the Adobe Acrobat generative AI can analyse the content of a document and propose inquiries that users might want to delve into, besides addressing questions regarding that content.
Moreover, the functionality produces citations, enabling users to authenticate the source of AI Assistant’s responses, and can generate clickable links that navigate directly to particular information within lengthy documents.
Acrobat users also have the option to request the chatbot to condense and structure information into easily comprehensible text for emails, reports, presentations, and other purposes.
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How to Get This Beta Version of Adobe Acrobat?
The beta version of this Adobe Acrobat generative AI is currently accessible to users on Acrobat Individual, Pro, and Teams plans, as well as Acrobat Pro trial participants, with upcoming integration into Reader.
The fresh Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is accessible to Acrobat users with Standard ($12.99 per month), Pro ($19.99 per month), and Teams subscription plans, spanning desktop and web platforms. During the beta phase, this feature is provided to customers “At no extra charge”.
However, according to a conversation between The Verge and Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president for Adobe Document Cloud, Modi mentioned that “Reader and Acrobat customers will gain access to the complete suite of AI Assistant functions via a new supplementary subscription plan once AI Assistant exits beta.”
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When Will the Tool Be Ready?
Adobe have not provided a timeline for the duration of the Acrobat AI assistant beta phase. However, the company has outlined a roadmap for forthcoming capabilities. These enhancements entail integrating with the Firefly generative AI model, extracting data from various documents and sources concurrently, and introducing functionalities for generating initial drafts and editing content.
The Future with More Generative AI
The introduction of this new Adobe Acrobat generative AI once again proves the common coverage and usefulness of generative AI in our daily work. Speaking of generative AI on PDFs, notably PDF chatbots, such as ChatPDF from OpenAI are already on the market. The biggest benefit that we can gain from the AI assistants in PDFs is that they help digest long contents into short summaries, and can generate essential and high-quality writing formats, providing much more convenience and saving more time in our daily working life.
In addition, this new Adobe Acrobat generative AI stands to become even more beneficial due to its inherent integration of the conversational engine into Reader and Acrobat, the standard PDF viewing platforms. And till the official release of the beta testing phase for this new AI assistant, you might want to take a look at Apple’s latest AI code tool that plans to rival Microsoft’s Github Copilot.