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Adobe knows you’re not reading that PDF
Adobe has added new generative AI tools to Acrobat to make PDFs easier to edit and quicker to understand.
The updates focus on turning documents into audio or visual summaries and letting users edit files through simple chat prompts.
These features live inside Acrobat Studio, Adobe’s AI-powered workspace, which is separate from the standard PDF reader.
One new feature, Generate Podcast, creates short, podcast-style audio summaries from documents like notes, meeting transcripts, long reports, or study guides.
For now, it uses a Microsoft GPT model for transcription and a Google Voice model for audio.
Adobe says this could change as it tests more of its own technology.
The feature is similar to Google’s NotebookLM Audio Overviews, but built directly into Acrobat.
For visual summaries, Generate Presentation turns documents into pitch decks.
Here’s what happened:
PDFs can now be turned into audio summaries or slide decks, depending on how you prefer to review information.
Editing documents works through chat prompts instead of manual changes.
All features sit inside Acrobat Studio, not the basic PDF reader.
Nobody was reading anyway
The AI pulls out key points and uses Adobe Express to apply ready-made slide designs.
Users can let the tool handle everything or manually adjust slides, layouts, and content.
Adobe has also expanded its AI assistant to support chat-based PDF editing.
Users can now describe what they want to change instead of editing files manually.
Acrobat Studio can add signatures, remove or rearrange pages, edit text and images, and replace specific words or phrases through simple prompts.
PDFs saw TikTok and panicked. - MG