Adobe has revealed AI Assistant in beta, a conversational engine in Reader and Acrobat.
The smart machine, with voice commands, can instantly generate summaries and insights from long documents, answers questions and format for sharing in emails, reports and presentations.
Adobes describes it as bringing generative AI to the masses.
“Generative AI offers the promise of more intelligent document experiences by transforming the information inside PDFs into actionable knowledge and professional-looking content,” said Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president, Document Cloud.
Users of Reader and Acrobat will have access to the full range of AI Assistant capabilities through a new add-on subscription plan when the assistant is out of beta.
Until then, the new AI Assistant features are available in beta for Acrobat Standard and Pro Individual and Teams subscription plans.
The new capabilities include:
AI Assistant: Recommends questions based on a PDF’s content and answers questions about what’s in the document, through an intuitive conversational interface.
Summary: Get a quick understanding of the content inside long documents with short overviews in easy-to-read formats.
Intelligent citations: Custom attribution engine and proprietary AI generate citations to verify the source of AI Assistant’s answers.
Navigation: Clickable links.
Formatted output: Consolidate and format information into to text for emails, presentations and reports.
Beyond PDF: Use AI Assistant with all kinds of formats (Word, PowerPoint, meeting transcripts.)
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