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How to use Adobe AI Assistant to chat with your PDFs

Use our Chat with PDF online tool to ask questions about your PDF by following these steps:

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  1. Click the "Select files" button above or drag and drop a PDF.
    You can select up to 10 files, each 600 pages long and no larger than 25MB. Find more on File prerequisites.
  2. Review the suggested questions to get quick, helpful insights.
    Get inspired and try our sample prompts, or learn how to power up your prompts.
  3. Sign in to your Adobe account to ask specific questions about your PDF and get immediate, reliable AI chat answers.
    When you try AI Assistant for the first time, it is important to agree to our user guidelines.
  4. Use these AI-generated answers to craft emails, presentations, and more, enabling seamless work.

Whether you’re a professional, a student, or a creative, Acrobat AI Assistant can revolutionise the way you work.

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For professionals

Reports made easy. Summarise key points and extract critical data, saving hours of manual analysis.

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For students

Reading time halved. Generate concise summaries and key takeaways, making study sessions more effective.

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For business

Generating trusted summaries. Get high-quality insights to create exceptional business content, ensuring your messaging is both accurate and impactful.

Try our PDF AI Chat tool for free

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Chat with any PDF

Ask questions on our latest PDF AI summariser tool. Upload a document, sign in, and type a question to get a quick response. With Acrobat AI Assistant, you can understand key information and analyse data within seconds.

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Use chat PDF to get quick answers

Looking to gain quick insights? Get an AI-generated summary of your document to save time and avoid a full PDF read-through. Also, simplify research and analysis by choosing from suggested questions or inputting your own.

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Enhance workflows with Adobe AI Assistant

With our PDF AI Assistant, you can create impactful content based on your document in record time. Use AI chat answers to craft impactful summaries, presentations, and more.

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Trace answers back to linked sources

AI Assistant answers are conveniently attributed with numbers, making it simple to verify the information. By clicking on a numbered link, you can instantly see the highlighted source content within the document.

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Analyse and summarise complex data easily

Ask any question or use case you have. Our AI Assistant will deliver instant answers by quickly analysing data in charts and tables.

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Trusted PDF AI Assistant by Adobe

Adobe invented the PDF file format. Hence, you can trust us to deliver document security and AI technology with accuracy and authenticity. Use our AI tool to chat with PDFs confidently and perform tasks efficiently.

Questions about PDF AI Assistant? We have answers.

Will customers have to pay to use AI Assistant in Acrobat?

Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant is available as an add-on subscription to Acrobat Reader (Free), Acrobat Standard, and Acrobat Pro plans across desktop, mobile and web apps. 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.

What kind of questions can I ask my PDF?

You can use the Acrobat AI Assistant tool to ask a PDF various types of questions. AI Assistant will then provide a quick answer, using natural language for easier understanding. As an example use case, you can ask AI Assistant to list a document’s five most important points, or you can ask it to draft an email summarising your document. Don’t know what to ask? Simply select one of the common questions suggested by our AI Assistant.

First, upload a PDF or other supported file. If you upload a Microsoft Word document (DOCX), PowerPoint presentation (PPTX), TXT file, or RTF file, the Acrobat online tool will convert the file format to PDF. Then sign in to ask your document questions and get quick answers.

You'll notice that many AI Assistant answers provide attribution by including numbered references as clickable links. When you select one of the numbered links in the AI Assistant chat answer, the AI PDF tool instantly highlights the related source content in your document. This interactive artificial intelligence feature provides a fast, seamless way for users to verify information with a single click. You can copy the chat history and use the answers to craft other content like emails, social posts, or presentations. Learn more about how the chat history is stored.

How does Adobe Acrobat PDF AI summariser work?

The working of the tool is quite simple. An AI summarising tool pulls key points out of a document to help you get to important information fast. This Acrobat AI PDF summariser feature is called generative summary. With a single click, generative summary generates a comprehensive document outline with headings, section links, and section-specific key points. By paraphrasing document content into a brief summary that you can read in a fraction of the time, the Acrobat AI summary tool lets you quickly understand long research papers or lengthy PDFs.

Sign in to Acrobat to try generative summary and the AI Assistant Q&A feature. Free or paid Acrobat individual customers will receive a complimentary, limited number of requests for AI Assistant in Acrobat. Customers can subscribe to the AI Assistant for Acrobat add-on to gain full access to the Acrobat generative summary and AI Assistant Q&A features. Read these FAQs to learn more.

Can I summarise individual sections of a PDF document?
To summarise an individual section of a PDF document, upload a file to the Acrobat AI chat tool and sign in. Then ask our AI Assistant to draft a summary of the specific section you need summarised. You can also ask other research questions, including questions that analyse data across tables shared in the document.
Is AI Assistant a secure tool to use to chat with PDFs?

Security is paramount to Adobe. When you upload documents using this tool, they will be deleted from our servers to respect your privacy if you don't sign in. Robust security measures are also built into every PDF created with Acrobat.

In addition, Adobe has integrated the trusted Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service AI model with our proprietary technologies to provide generative AI capability in Acrobat. Adobe and its service providers do not use Adobe customer content to train the Large Language Models (LLMs) — ours or a third party’s — that deliver Acrobat generative AI capabilities. We also do not permit third parties to manually review Adobe customer content.

What is chat PDF AI used for?
Adobe Acrobat Chat PDF AI is used to interact with and extract information from various documents. It can summarise contract agreements, provide insights from financial reports, condense book content, and facilitate conversations about legal documents, making complex information more accessible and understandable.
Can Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant edit PDF documents?
While the AI Assistant cannot edit documents directly, you can use Adobe Acrobat online services to convert PDF to Word or other formats and edit away. You can also use the PDF editor to add comments or highlight text.
What languages are supported by PDF AI Assistant?
Currently, AI Assistant only supports English documents. Because AI Assistant is available as an online tool, you can access the AI functionality using almost any web browser or operating system, including Mac and Windows. You can also use it in the Acrobat Chrome extension.
How do I cancel AI Assistant? Will I still be able to use my base Acrobat plan?

You can cancel or deactivate your Acrobat AI Assistant subscription in your Adobe account, by following the below steps:

  1. Sign in to your Adobe account at https://account.adobe.com
  2. Click on "Plans & Products"
  3. Find your Acrobat plan with the AI Assistant add-on and click "Manage Plan"
  4. Click "Cancel Plan" or "Deactivate Plan" and follow the prompts

Cancelling your AI Assistant subscription will remove access to those features, but your base Acrobat plan will remain active. If you cancel your base Acrobat plan, the AI Assistant subscription will also be cancelled. For more details on managing your Adobe subscriptions page.

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