An tool that will be very useful for professionals and students has arrived. Adobe has launched this week an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can generate summaries and answer questions about PDF and other documents.
The AI assistant, currently in beta phase, is a new conversational engine based on AI that is “deeply integrated into PDF workflows,” according to a post on Adobe’s blog. The company plans to launch a subscription plan for the tool once it comes out of beta version.
According to Adobe, the AI assistant will help users digest information from long PDF documents by generating brief summaries of their content. The assistant can also answer questions about the information in a document through a “conversational interface” and suggest questions about the file that users could ask.
Adobe said that the AI assistant can also generate citations that allow users to verify the source of the tool’s answers, and it can produce text for various formats, such as emails, reports, and presentations, as reported by The Verge.
Other AI models, such as ChatGPT, offer PDF readers that similarly streamline the analysis of lengthy documents, but those services require users to upload a PDF. Adobe’s AI assistant is a built-in feature.
The new AI assistant from Adobe is available for Acrobat customers with Standard, Pro, and Teams subscription plans, both on desktop and web, and “at no additional cost” while the product is in beta phase. Abhigyan Modi, Senior Vice President of Adobe Document Cloud, told The Verge that “Reader and Acrobat customers will have access to the full range of AI assistant capabilities through a new additional subscription plan when the AI assistant comes out of beta version”.
