AI for your PDFs – Computerworld

How the Acrobat AI Assistant chatbot works

The Acrobat AI Assistant is easy to use and find: Just open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat or Reader. Then, click the colorful “AI Assistant” button on the toolbar. Adobe’s AI chatbot will open in a sidebar, providing you with a summary of the document and suggesting questions. You can also click a “Generative Summary” button in the All Tools sidebar to immediately get a summary of your document.

It works with PDFs up to 600 pages long, and you can use the “Add files” button to add additional PDFs into the mix. In total, you can provide the Adobe AI Assistant with up to 10 PDF files at a time. Then you can ask questions and get answers based on all the files you provided.

In my experience, the Acrobat AI Assistant works well, by and large. That’s no surprise, since it’s using GPT 4o technology under the hood. It provides answers very similar to what you’d get from ChatGPT — which is exactly what people who want AI integration in a productivity app are looking for.