Adobe has been working with generative AI for quite a while – integrating into Photoshop and other of its visual tools. Now it’s adding features that allow it to perform deep queries on PDFs – a document format that Adobe pioneered:

The idea is that the chatbot will reduce the time-consuming tasks related to working with massive text documents — such as helping students quickly find information for research projects or summarizing large reports into snappy highlights for emails, meetings, and presentations. AI Assistant in Acrobat can be used with all document formats supported by the app, including Word and PowerPoint. The chatbot abides by Adobe’s data security protocols, so it won’t store data from customer documents or use it to train AI Assistant.

Even so, the information in your private, secure PDF is being uploaded to Adobe for analysis. So be careful what you share.

Read the report here.