- Generative AI features in Acrobat
- Adobe Generative AI user guidelines
- Content usage and handling practices
- Before you begin
- Get AI-generated answers
- Get AI-generated overviews and summaries
- Use generative AI features in meeting apps
- Use the generative AI features from Acrobat Home
- React to the content responses
- Turn off the generative AI features
- Generative AI features in Acrobat mobile
- Request access to AI Assistant
- Administer AI Assistant for enterprises
- Known issues
- Usage limitations
Use the generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader to quickly scan through lengthy, complex PDF content and get answers or generate a summary.
Overview of generative AI features
The generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader support English, French, and German only. To understand the governing terms, review Adobe's Generative AI User Guidelines. To understand Adobe's data handling practices, see Content usage and handling practices.
The AI-powered features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader support multiple document types, including PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, and RTF files. AI Assistant supports Microsoft Teams and Zoom meeting transcripts. The capabilities improve comprehension and save time across various document types.
AI Assistant supports scanned documents. You can scan your paper documents and upload them to Acrobat to get concise summaries and accurate answers to your questions. It also breaks down complex language into key details, making it easy to read and understand contracts directly in Acrobat.
AI Assistant quickly gets answers to your questions based on your documents in a comprehensive and informative way. It can analyze multiple documents to uncover similarities, differences, and key patterns. With AI Assistant, you can make targeted requests, such as highlighting the differences between PDF contracts. It links to text and data table sources within the document. It also suggests follow-up questions for you based on the primary question. AI Assistant uses the latest AI language model, GPT 4o, to provide more accurate and clear answers to your queries based on more citations. It can extract information accurately from tables and complex documents. Learn more about AI Assistant using our in-depth videos.
Generative summary automatically provides an outline with headings and summaries to highlight key points in the document. The feature generates key insights that help you easily comprehend the PDF content. For a speedier response, it processes PDF content in chunks and simultaneously streams summaries. Learn more about Generative summary using our in-depth videos.
You can access the generative AI features in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat desktop on both Windows and macOS, on Acrobat online, and within Acrobat extensions for Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. AI Assistant is also available on phones through Acrobat mobile apps (iOS and Android). It isn't available on iPad or Android tablets.
If you're a free or paid subscriber, you'll receive a complimentary but limited number of Requests for AI Assistant in Acrobat. For more information about usage limitations, see Acrobat generative AI usage policy. The full range of AI Assistant capabilities is available to free or paid individual, team, and enterprise customers when they purchase the new AI Assistant for Acrobat add-on subscription. See the Adobe Acrobat Plans and Pricing page for details.
Benefits of generative AI features
The generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader significantly improve comprehension, help you get insights, and produce high-quality content quickly. Here are the main benefits.
Improved comprehension: You can better understand complex PDF documents because the features provide insights and more context around the content.
Enhanced productivity: Work across multiple PDFs and documents in various formats, including Teams and Zoom meeting transcripts, streamlining your workflow and saving time for higher-priority tasks.
Impactful content: You can use the content suggestions that the features generate for impactful emails, presentations, meeting notes, and more.
Help improve the generative AI features
Your role is crucial in helping improve the capabilities of the generative AI features. Indicate whether you're satisfied with the generated output, and let us know your feedback. You can choose to like, dislike, or report a piece of content. We use your feedback to refine the capabilities of generative AI features for the future. Learn more about how you can help improve the generative AI features.
Turn off generative AI features
The generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader are turned on by default. However, you can choose to turn them off, if necessary. If you're an admin, you can revoke access to generative AI features for your team or org by contacting Adobe Customer Care. For more information, see Turn off the generative AI features.