Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat, aimed at helping you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them into audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to create personalized podcasts and presentations based on your documents, which are now available in Acrobat Studio – an AI-infused document workspace app that is separate from Adobe’s native PDF reader.
The new Generate Podcast feature provides podcast-style audio summaries of any document you feed, including notes, meeting transcripts, longer reports, and educational guides. While Adobe has its own audio AI model, Generate Podcasts currently leverages the Microsoft GPT model and the Google Voice model for transcription. Adobe says this may change in the future as it continues to test technologies. Google’s NotebookLM research tool has a similar audio overview feature, although Adobe Acrobat is probably more familiar to anyone who works with PDF documents.
For a more visual summary, Acrobat Studio users can ask the built-in AI Assistant to generate a pitch deck that focuses on specific insights in the source documents. The Generate Presentation feature taps into Adobe Express tools to provide a selection of presentation designs. You can select these to automate the entire process, or edit any parts of the resulting presentation you’re not happy with.
Following a similar update to Express last year, Acrobat’s AI assistant now also supports editing PDF documents with chat prompts. Acrobat Studio users can add signatures, delete pages, text, comments and images, replace words and phrases, and more by describing those changes.
