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Text summariser

Drag and drop your document to quickly generate a clear, concise summary with Adobe AI Assistant.

Drag and drop your file to streamline your research and stay focused on what truly matters.

How to summarise text online

Save time reading documents by creating AI-powered summaries in just a few clicks with Acrobat online tools. Whether you’re reviewing reports, studying a research paper or catching up on meeting notes, you can quickly identify the most important information without reading every page.

Follow these steps to summarise text:

  1. Drag and drop your PDF document above.
  2. Acrobat AI analyses your document and generates a concise summary of the key points.
  3. Review your summary and explore important topics from the original document.
  4. Continue working with your PDF by saving, sharing or asking follow-up questions with Acrobat AI.

Sample prompts to try with our AI Summariser.

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.

AI AssistantAsk

Executive summary

Summarise this presentation so my manager can read it in less than a minute.
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AI AssistantAsk

Action items

What are the key action items for the attendees of this presentation?
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AI AssistantAsk

Sum it up

Summarise this document in 3 sentences.
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AI AssistantAsk

Contract terms

Summarise the payment terms outlined in this contract.
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Discover how AI-powered summaries can help you to work faster and stay focused with Acrobat online tools.

Save time reading

Quickly understand the main ideas in lengthy documents without spending time reading every page. Summaries help you to find the information you need faster.

Focus on key information

Acrobat AI highlights the most important points, making it easier to identify takeaways, action items and essential details from reports, articles and other documents.

Improve productivity

Spend less time reviewing documents and more time acting on what matters. Generate summaries for business documents, research papers, presentations and more.

Study more efficiently

Turn dense readings into short, skimmable summaries to prepare for exams, review key concepts or catch up quickly.

Review long reports with confidence

Use your summary to see how a document is structured, then jump to the sections that matter most before reading the full text.

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