Adobe has added new generative AI capabilities to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats . These updates include conversation-based editing and the ability to create personalized podcasts and presentations based on your documents, which are now available in Adobe Acrobat Studio . This is the AI document workspace app that is separate from Adobe's basic PDF reader.
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Adobe Acrobat AI: Generate Podcasts
The new Generate Podcast provides a podcast-style audio summary of any documents you give it, including notes, meeting transcripts, long reports, and training guides. While Adobe has its own AI model for audio, Generate Podcast currently uses a Microsoft GPT model for transcription and a Google voice model. Adobe says this may change in the future as it continues to test technologies.
Google's NotebookLM tool has a similar Audio Overviews, although Adobe Acrobat is probably more familiar to those who have worked with PDF documents.
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Visual summary: Generate Presentation
For a more visual summary, Acrobat Studio users can ask the built-in AI assistant to create a presentation that focuses on specific information in the source documents. The Generate Presentation leverages Adobe Express tools to provide a selection of presentation designs. You can select these to automate the entire process or edit any part of the generated presentation (if you are not satisfied with it).
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Acrobat's AI assistant also supports editing PDF documents with chat prompts, following a similar update in Express last year. Acrobat Studio users can add signatures, remove pages, text, comments and images, replace words and phrases and more by describing the changes they want to make.
