Adobe Unveils AI Assistant for PDF Management

Adobe has launched an AI assistant within its Reader and Acrobat applications, capable of summarizing and answering questions about PDF content.

The AI assistant aids users in extracting information from lengthy documents. It can also respond to inquiries about the file’s content and suggest potential questions for users to ask.

Other AI models, such as ChatGPT, offer solutions for reading PDF files that similarly expedite the analysis of extensive documents. However, these services require users to upload the document. Adobe’s AI assistant is an integrated feature.

“Imagine opening a 100-page document. You want to understand its summary, interact with it, ask questions. You want to correlate it with other documents you might have, as well as all the information at your disposal,” said Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in an interview with CNBC.

When asked whether OpenAI’s model named Sora encroaches on Adobe’s territory, Narayen stated that the company “is also working on its video models” and intends to apply this technology “responsibly.”

Earlier in February, OpenAI introduced a new generative model, Sora, which enables text-to-video conversion.