Adobe has added new generative AI options to Acrobat that intention that can assist you rapidly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visible codecs. These updates embody chat-based enhancing and the power to generate personalised podcasts and shows primarily based in your docs, which are actually out there in Acrobat Studio — the AI-infused doc workspace app that’s distinct from Adobe’s fundamental PDF reader.
The brand new Generate Podcast function supplies a podcast-style audio summarization of no matter paperwork you feed it, together with notes, assembly transcriptions, prolonged reviews, and academic guides. Whereas Adobe does have its own audio AI model, Generate Podcast at present leverages a Microsoft GPT mannequin for transcription and a Google voice mannequin. Adobe says this will likely change sooner or later because it continues to check applied sciences. Google’s NotebookLM research tool has the same Audio Overviews feature, although Adobe Acrobat is probably going extra acquainted to anybody who’s labored with PDF paperwork.
For a extra visible summarization, Acrobat Studio customers can ask the built-in AI assistant to generate a pitch deck that focuses on particular insights in supply paperwork. The Generate Presentation function faucets into Adobe Specific instruments to offer a choice of presentation designs. You may choose these to automate all the course of, or edit any a part of the ensuing presentation you’re not pleased with.
Acrobat’s AI assistant now additionally helps enhancing PDF paperwork with chat prompts, following a similar update to Express final yr. Acrobat Studio customers can add signatures, take away pages, textual content, feedback, and pictures, substitute phrases and phrases, and extra by describing the modifications they wish to make.
