- Adobe launches new AI tools for Acrobat users
- Features include natural language PDF editing
- Transform digital documents into presentations and audio versions
Big changes are coming to Adobe Acrobat today – and yes, a lot of AI is involved here.
Acrobat has long been at the top of my guide to the best PDF editors. It’s clean, intuitive to use, and has a feature set that I would consider quite extensive.
But it seems Adobe isn’t content to stop there. Already in recent months we have seen the introduction of a premium professional tier, Acrobat Studio, and PDF Spaces, an AI-powered workspace. Today, the company launched a series of new tools for the software.
What’s new in Acrobat?
This latest update brings four major changes to the digital document software, based on Adobe’s three key pillars: faster AI insights, personalized sharing, and content creation through Adobe Express.
Here’s what users can expect.
- New Ways to Edit PDFs Using AI Chat
- Generate Podcast lets you turn PDFs into audio previews
- Generate Presentation turns documents into presentations
- Improve collaboration via PDF spaces
Let’s start with PDF editing: With the AI companion, you can now make changes to documents in natural language. Do you want to delete pages or rotate them? Rewrite passages, generate summaries of entire documents? All of this is available through the AI chat box. If you’re not sure where to start, the system will also give you ideas for other changes to make or actions to take.
For me, Generate Podcast is the most interesting update. Don’t be fooled by the “podcast” moniker. This is a lot like the Read Aloud feature already found in Acrobat, where you can create an audio preview of documents, transcriptions, and notes. Adobe also promises that the result can be adapted “to the way you learn so that you retain more information.”
Generate Presentation is another AI tool (of course) and does exactly what you’d expect: it turns documents into presentations to present information to colleagues. Powered by Adobe Express, which has received a lot of love over the past year, users can create presentations based on over five hundred thousand templates and generate custom images to make them more eye-catching.
Finally, the company wants to improve collaboration within PDF Spaces. It’s not the most exciting update, but a welcome one, with new options for inviting collaborators to add files, leave notes, and make comments.
From the demo videos Adobe showed me, they all seem useful for speeding up workflows and quite easy to use – as I would expect from an AI-infused Acrobat. But I will be interested to see more results and to know how (or even if) professionals use these tools.
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