Prime Highlight:
- Adobe has rolled out new AI features in Acrobat that allow users to edit files with text prompts, generate podcast-style summaries, and create presentations from stored documents.
- The updates strengthen Adobe’s strategy to embed artificial intelligence across its products, making document creation, sharing, and consumption more interactive and efficient.
Key Facts:
- Users can now turn files or entire Adobe Spaces into AI-generated podcasts and create presentations using text prompts, with slides built through Adobe Express.
- Acrobat’s AI assistant supports up to 12 prompt-based PDF editing actions and adds AI-generated summaries with citations to shared documents.
Background:
Adobe has introduced new artificial intelligence features for Acrobat, enabling users to edit files using text prompts, generate podcast-style summaries and create presentations from stored documents. The update is part of Adobe’s wider push to integrate AI across its products. One key update lets users turn files or entire Adobe Spaces into podcasts.
Users can listen to AI-generated summaries of documents, which makes it easier to get information while on the go. Similar tools already exist in Google NotebookLM and Speechify, but Adobe wants to offer this feature directly in Acrobat.
Adobe has also expanded the use of Adobe Spaces, its shared workspace for files and notes. Users can now create presentations using text prompts by pulling information from documents stored in a Space. For example, financial data, product plans and competitor insights can be used to build a client pitch deck.
Acrobat’s AI assistant first makes an editable outline for the presentation. Users then create the slides in Adobe Express, picking themes, stock images, or their own visuals. They can easily apply brand styles and edit each slide when needed.
In addition, Adobe now lets users edit PDF files through prompts. Users can perform up to 12 actions, including removing pages, text, images, and comments, finding and replacing words, and adding e-signatures or passwords.
Sharing features have also improved. Shared files will now include AI-generated summaries with citations that point to exact sections in the document. Contributors can comment, add content, or remove information.
Adobe is also offering flexible AI assistant roles, such as analyst, instructor, or entertainer, along with the option to create custom assistants using prompts.