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David Wadhwani, Adobe’s senior vice president of digital media, speaks during the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 in San Francisco on April 23, 2012.
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Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can create summaries about PDFs and other documents and answer questions about them.
The AI assistant, which is currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat, “with features coming to Reader in the coming days and weeks,” according to a news release. Adobe plans to release a subscription plan for the tool once it’s out of beta.
The company said the AI assistant will help users digest information from long PDF documents by generating a concise description of their content. The Assistant can also answer questions about information in the document through a “conversational interface” and suggest questions about the file that users might ask.
Adobe said the AI assistant can also generate citations that allow users to verify the source of the tool’s answers, and can prepare text for a variety of formats such as emails, presentations and reports, according to the news release.
Other AI models like ChatGPT offer PDF readers that accelerate analysis of longer documents, but those services require users to upload the PDF. Adobe’s AI Assistant is a built-in feature.
In an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Tuesday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan said the new tool represents the company’s goal of “democratizing access” to the trillions of PDFs in use.
“Just imagine you’ve opened a 100-page document. You want to understand the summary, you want to interact with it, you want to ask questions,” Narayan said. “You want to correlate it with other documents you may have as well as with the overall information you have across your enterprise.”
Last week, OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, launched a new tool that produces realistic, high-definition videos from text prompts. Responding to a question about whether OpenAI’s model, called Sora, represents an encroachment on Adobe’s territory, Narayan said the company is “also working on our video models” and that technology is “responsible. Intended to be implemented in “Tools and Workflows”. ,
