Adobe is releasing an AI assistant that can summarize all those complex PDFs for you
In an effort to make document management much less time-consuming, Adobe has confirmed the general availability of its latest AI tools designed to streamline document workflows.
The software company’s latest announcement concerns tax season, which is currently underway worldwide. It marks the 25th anniversary of the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) standardizing tax documents in PDF.
Adobe’s Acrobat AI Assistant is now generally available through Acrobat Reader, desktop and web and will be available as an add-on subscription for $4.99 per month.
Acrobat AI Assistant is now available
Adobe says the full launch of its new generative AI assistant “brings generative AI to the masses,” estimating that there are more than three trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide.
The company hopes its GenAI tool will transform users’ interactions with documents by providing features to extract important information, summarize content, and facilitate easier navigation within long documents.
Abhigyan Modi, SVP of Adobe Document Cloud, said: “Acrobat AI Assistant enables billions of people to go from reading documents to having conversations – quickly and easily getting insights and content from all kinds of digital documents. can create and share. ”
In addition to letting you “chat with your PDFs,” Adobe also promises to provide intelligent citations so users can verify the source of the generated content. The company also confirmed that it will not store or use customer data to train AI assistants without permission.
The add-on will only be available to users with free Reader or paid Acrobat for individual subscriptions in English, and the early access price of $4.99 per month will remain in effect until June 5, 2024. More languages will follow.
AI Assistant on Reader Mobile is also available in beta for a “limited time,” indicating a mobile launch is imminent.