Adobe has expanded Acrobat with new AI features that allow users to generate presentations and podcasts from documents, edit PDFs through conversational prompts, and collaborate more effectively. These capabilities are bundled in Acrobat Studio, which combines PDF tools from Acrobat with content creation features from Adobe Express.
The company now enables users to create presentations directly from documents stored in PDF Spaces, which Adobe describes as a collection of files and notes accessible to multiple users. According to Adobe, a sales professional could pull information from various PDFs and web pages to create an editable presentation outline. The system uses Adobe Express to generate slide designs and draft decks that users can customize with animations, fonts, and brand elements.
Acrobat has introduced chat-based PDF editing that responds to natural language commands. Users can perform twelve different actions through text prompts, including removing pages, text, comments and images, finding and replacing words, and adding e-signatures and passwords. An enhanced help panel provides step-by-step instructions through conversational interaction.
The new podcast generation feature converts documents and web links into audio summaries. Users add materials to a PDF Space and request an AI-generated podcast that summarizes the content. Adobe suggests this allows people to consume information while commuting or exercising instead of reading at a desk.
PDF Spaces now support enhanced collaboration, allowing users to invite others to add files, leave notes, and comment on projects. When sharing files, the system generates AI summaries with citations pointing to specific locations in documents. Users can select different AI assistant roles such as analyst, entertainer, or instructor, or create custom assistants through prompts.
According to Abhigyan Modi, Senior Vice President of Adobe Document Cloud, the features address information overload and help people manage assignments more effectively. The company reports that AI use across Acrobat increased four times over the past year. Adobe cites a Forrester Total Economic Impact study indicating that Acrobat’s AI Assistant increases efficiency for document summarization and analysis by 45 percent.
TechCrunch notes that similar functionality exists in competing products. Canva and Google’s NotebookLM offer document-to-presentation conversion, while NotebookLM, Speechify, and ElevenLabs’ Reader app provide personalized podcast creation from documents.
The updates integrate Acrobat’s productivity tools with Express’s content creation capabilities, along with access to Express’s asset library. All features are available through Acrobat Studio, which Adobe positions as a unified platform for PDF management, AI assistance, and content creation.
Sources: Adobe News, TechCrunch
