Adobe Acrobat adds conversational AI to edit PDFs with text prompts
Adobe has integrated new artificial intelligence (AI) features into Acrobat, enabling users to generate podcast summaries from files, create presentations, and edit documents via text prompts.
The company has extended the functionality of Adobe Spaces, its collaborative collection of files and notes, to allow users to generate presentations from stored information using text prompts. For example, financial data, product plans, and competitor analyses within a Space can be used to construct a client pitch deck focused on problem-solving differentiation. Acrobat’s AI assistant produces an editable presentation outline which users can then customize with themes from Adobe Express, stock photos, personal images, branding, or by editing individual slides.
Acrobat now also facilitates the creation of podcasts to summarize files or entire Spaces. Additionally, new editing capabilities allow users to modify files using prompts. Users can perform 12 distinct actions, including removing pages, text, comments, and images, as well as finding and replacing words and phrases, and adding e-signatures and passwords.
Sharing functionalities within Spaces have been enhanced; shared files now include AI-generated summaries with citations linking to specific document locations. Contributors can comment on, add to, or remove content from these files. Users can select from a default AI assistant or choose specialized roles such as “analyst,” “entertainer,” or “instructor,” with the option to create custom assistants via prompts.