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Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant for Acrobat Reader that can produce summaries and answer questions about PDFs and other documents. The Ai assistant, currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat “with features coming to Reader in the coming days and weeks,” it says in a press release. Adobe plans to release a subscription plan for the tool once it exits the beta phase.
The AI assistant will help users digest information contained in long PDF documents by generating short overviews of their contents, the company said. It can also answer questions about information in a document through a “conversational interface” and suggest questions about the file that users might ask. Adobe said the Ai assistant can also generate quotes that allow users to verify the source of the tool’s responses, and can produce text for various formats such as emails, presentations and reports. Other AI models, such as ChatGPT, offer PDF readers that similarly speed up the analysis of long documents, but these services require users to upload the PDF in question. Adobe’s new product would represent an integrated function of Acrobat Reader.