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How to summarise a PDF with AI?
Looking to summarise your PDFs? Adobe Acrobat’s AI summary generator helps you quickly extract key insights from large documents, PDFs, reports, research papers, invoices and more. AI Assistant delivers accurate, customisable summaries — fast.
Follow these steps to generate a short summary of lengthy text documents using our PDF summariser:
- Drag and drop your file or upload it from your device.
- Review the generated summary, then use the “Chat with PDF” feature to ask specific questions, explore sections in more detail, or request a different summary format.
- Copy the summary and use it wherever you need.
Sample prompts to try with our AI PDF Summariser.
Prompts guide the AI to help you complete tasks faster. Try one of the prompts below or explore our full list of prompts. Click to copy, then select a file and paste the prompt to get started.
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Get concise summaries fast
Upload your document to generate a short summary in seconds. Adobe’s AI PDF summariser helps you save time and quickly understand the most important points.
Adjust summary length and format
Shorten or expand your summary to suit your needs. Choose bullet points or paragraph formats for easier reading, sharing, and reuse.
Ask questions and explore insights
Review the AI-generated summary, then select a suggested question or ask follow-up questions to deepen understanding and improve readability.
Trace insights back to source content
AI-generated summaries include numbered citations so you can verify information easily. Select a citation to see the source highlighted in your document.
Summarise scanned PDFs with OCR
Understand image-based and scanned PDFs using built-in OCR feature, allowing text content to be analysed and summarised accurately.
AI-powered PDF tools you can trust
As the inventor of the PDF file format, Adobe delivers AI technology built with security in mind, so you can use our online summary tool confidently.
Whether you’re a professional, a student, or a creative, PDF Summariser can transform the way you work.
For professionals
Reports made easy. Summarise key points and extract critical data, saving hours of manual analysis.
For students
Reading time halved. Generate concise summaries and key takeaways, making study sessions more effective.
For business
Generating trusted summaries. Get high-quality insights to create exceptional business content, ensuring your messaging is both accurate and impactful.
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Questions about the PDF summariser tool? We have answers.
Summarise Research Papers and Academic Articles
Save hours of reading time by instantly generating executive summaries of dense academic documents and journal articles.
Summarise Legal Documents
Extract key clauses, contract terms or obligations from lengthy legal PDFs with prompt-based summaries, such as “Summarise contract terms” or “Highlight obligations.”
Generate Study Guides and Textbook Overviews
Turn entire textbooks or course materials into short, digestible summaries. Perfect for students preparing for exams or quick reference.
Create Executive Summaries from Business Reports
Ask Acrobat AI Assistant to generate an executive summary tailored for managers or stakeholders who need to get up to speed fast.
Security is paramount to Adobe, especially when it comes to advanced AI capabilities. When you upload documents using this tool, they will be deleted from our servers to respect your privacy if you don’t sign in. Security measures are also built into every PDF created with Acrobat.
In addition, Adobe has integrated the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service with our proprietary technologies to provide generative AI capability in Acrobat. Adobe and its service providers do not use Adobe customer content to train generative AI models.
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