How to chat with PDFs online?
Learn how to use an AI-powered document assistant to chat with your PDFs and other documents. Ask questions and get answers from your files, compare documents, review content and extract key information and insights.
Follow these steps to ask your PDF anything you need:
- Drag and drop your file or upload it from your device.
- Ask for answers or summaries in the chat directly.
- Review answers and refine them by asking follow up questions.
- Copy the answers and use it wherever you need.
Whether you’re a researcher, a student, or part of a business team, Chat with PDF helps you work smarter.
For researchers
Analyse research papers, journal articles, and white papers more efficiently. Ask questions across long documents, surface key findings, and trace answers back to cited sources.
For students
Study course materials with greater clarity. Ask questions, summarise key concepts, and extract important takeaways from textbooks, lecture notes, and readings.
For business
Get insights from reports and contracts. Ask questions across proposals, presentations, and financial documents to generate accurate, citation-backed answers.
Work smarter with these sample prompts.
Prompts provide guidance to AI Assistant so you can accomplish tasks fast. Here are a few example prompts. Click to copy, then select a file to paste into AI Assistant and get started quickly.
Try our AI chat tool for free
Gone are the days of skimming pages for the information that you need. Use our PDF chat tool to get the most important insights in seconds. Our online tool allows you to chat with PDF documents to get quick answers to your questions.
Chat with any PDF
Ask questions and get answers from your document in seconds. Upload a PDF and type a question to understand key information or analyse content quickly.
Get answers across multiple files
Chat with more than one PDF at the same time to compare information and connect insights. Ask questions across multiple documents without switching between files.
Enhance workflows with Adobe AI Assistant
Turn document questions into clear, ready answers you can easily use in presentations, documents, and other work outputs across your workflow.
Trace insights back to source content
AI-generated answers include numbered citations so you can verify information easily. Select a citation to see the source content highlighted directly in your document.
Chat in multiple languages
Ask questions and get answers from PDFs written in supported languages. Multilingual support helps you analyse and understand documents without language barriers.
Trusted PDF AI by Adobe
As the inventor of the PDF file format, Adobe delivers AI technology built with security in mind. Chat with PDFs confidently, knowing your documents are handled responsibly.
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Questions about Chat with PDF tool? We have answers.
Chat with PDF is available with limited access for free. For continued or expanded use, Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is available as an add-on subscription. You can add it to your existing plan or purchase it together with a new Acrobat subscription. See the plans page for additional details.
For larger businesses and enterprises, see the new generative AI feature for business page for details or contact sales.
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