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Hindustan Times
9 hours ago
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Adobe's new Acrobat Studio places your PDFs and AI assistants in one place
Adobe is introducing a new platform that weaves together Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express and artificial intelligence (AI) automation in a single window, the idea being to consolidate PDF documents, web pages and multiple tools into a hub. Adobe envisions Acrobat Studio, which also spawns its own subscription, as a collective that allows users to find value from creating specific workplaces where PDFs form the foundation of conversational knowledge hubs, with customisable AI Assistants to draw information, answers or recommendations alongside the company's Express creativity platform, PDF management tools, and the Firefly AI powered image and video generation options. Official image. Acrobat Studio will be priced at $24.99 per month (or ₹1,357 in India) for individuals and $29.99/month for teams (that's priced at ₹2,969 per license, in India). Adobe calls this as 'early access pricing', and it isn't clear for now if this will increase after this offer ends on October 31. This now sits alongside Acrobat Standard ($12.99 per month) and Acrobat Pro ($19.99 per month), and the exclusive functionality includes an Acrobat AI Assistant as well. Adobe says anyone who is currently subscribed to any of these plans, can upgrade. There are specific use-cases that may draw value from the Acrobat Studio subscription, with a proposition for students to piece together their notes into study guides and also able to quickly generate precise citations from their sources. Another possible use case could be relevant for travellers, who may be able to draw upon Acrobat Studio to collect location reviews, itineraries or recommendations and have AI Assistants help them plan the vacation. Or use Express tools to transform data into infographics or visual assets. 'Acrobat Studio is the place where your best work comes together, uniting the productivity of Acrobat, the creative power of Adobe Express and the value of AI to empower you to work smarter and faster. We're reinventing PDF for modern work, so whatever you need to get done, you can do that with Acrobat,' says Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president, Document Product Group at Adobe, in a briefing of which HT was a part. PDF Spaces will also allow users to also add specific websites and webpages to the collection of files and documents, for more information. Adobe says that users will have the flexibility to assign AI Assistants in PDF Spaces with specific roles, such as that of an instructor, or analyst, or entertainer, which will form the baseline personality for how they collate and present information, answer user questions and deploy reasoning to suggest further aspects worth exploring. Sharing should be easy too, the company promises, insisting entire PDF Spaces, including personalised AI Assistants, can be shared with colleagues, customers and classmates. At this time, Acrobat Studio is available only in English, worldwide. Adobe's Acrobat Studio and its focused proposition competes, in varying degrees, with Google's NotebookLM that can also behave as a virtual assistant capable of summarising, explaining, and answering questions based on uploaded documents (these can be PDFs, Docs, Slides, Microsoft 365 files, or web pages), and also includes a 'podcast-style' Audio Overview features. While Google unlocks NotebookLM with the entry spec AI Pro plan ₹1,950 per month), you'll need the top-tier AI Ultra plan ( ₹24,500 per month) to unlock higher usage limits. If the focus is on just writing and assistance with information, OpenAI's ChatGPT Canvas and Google Gemini Canvas also have areas of strength with wider document support and Google Docs sync respectively. It must be noted that the Canvas propositions from Google and OpenAI are more focused on coding tasks as well, something Adobe isn't promising.
Techday NZ
11 hours ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Adobe launches Acrobat Studio with AI, PDF tools
Adobe has launched Acrobat Studio, introducing a platform that combines PDF tools, creative content production and generative AI capabilities aimed at boosting productivity and collaboration across work and personal projects. Acrobat Studio brings together functions from Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and new AI-powered agents under a single platform, enabling users to transform traditional static PDFs into interactive knowledge hubs. According to Adobe, more than 3 trillion PDFs are in circulation globally, and Acrobat Studio aims to give new utility to this widespread file format by layering intelligence and creativity functions onto document workflows. Platform features Central to the new platform is the introduction of PDF Spaces, which allows users to gather collections of PDFs, website links and other documents into dynamic environments. These hubs can be explored with the help of AI Assistants, which are designed to uncover insights, provide recommendations and generate ideas from the collective knowledge housed in each PDF Space. The AI Assistants can be assigned roles such as "instructor", "analyst", or "entertainer", and customers are able to customise these assistants according to the needs of their projects. Users can share entire PDF Spaces - including any personalised AI Assistants - with colleagues, clients or classmates, thereby creating a collaborative environment where information can be analysed, summarised, or synthesised by multiple participants. The PDF Spaces are intended to support a range of activities, from organising research and verifying sources, to summarising documents or preparing collaborative notes and study guides. Acrobat Studio is the place where your best work comes together, uniting the productivity of Acrobat, the creative power of Adobe Express and the value of AI to empower you to work smarter and faster. We're reinventing PDF for modern work, so whatever you need to get done, you can do that with Acrobat. Creative and PDF tools Acrobat Studio integrates Adobe Express Premium's content creation toolkit, which includes professionally designed templates, brand kits, and Firefly-powered image and video generation. Users can create materials such as infographics, presentations and social media posts directly within the platform. This enables a consolidated workflow where consumption, analysis and content creation can all happen in one place without switching between software. The suite also includes Acrobat's established PDF tools for editing, combining files, scanning hardcopies, signing agreements and redacting sensitive information. New AI-driven capabilities within Acrobat Studio facilitate generating summaries of long documents, including scanned contracts or multi-page reports, to help users find key data points quickly and efficiently. Data security and enterprise features From an enterprise perspective, Acrobat Studio includes measures focused on transparency, control and security. The platform uses encryption, contains a sandboxed environment and provides compliance-ready features and central administration tools. The AI Assistants are restricted to analysing only the documents users specifically designate, and clickable citations are provided for AI responses, linking back to original sources for verification. Adobe has stated that its AI models are not trained on customer data, and third-party vendors are also prohibited from using customer data for model training. These measures aim to support organisations required to manage sensitive information in finance, legal, sales and compliance teams. Applications and use cases Business professionals can extract insights from collections of files to create polished reports or infographics, while finance teams can create board-ready presentations using metrics summarised from documents within PDF Spaces. Legal and compliance teams are offered tools for consolidating memos, regulatory updates and draft policies. Students can use the platform to organise notes, confirm sources, and generate citations efficiently. Consumers are able to scan and understand contracts with the help of AI, e-sign documents, and manage paperwork within a unified environment. For teams, Acrobat Studio's collaborative features mean that centralised knowledge bases with shared AI Assistants can streamline communication and project documentation, from client proposals and product discovery notes to policy drafts and regulatory summaries. Availability and pricing Acrobat Studio is offered globally in English and comes with a 14-day free trial. Early access pricing is set at USD $24.99 per month for individuals and USD $29.99 per month for teams, with unlimited access to PDF Spaces, AI Assistants and Adobe Express Premium tools included in each subscription.
Yahoo
12 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Acrobat Studio Delivers New AI-Powered Home for Productivity and Creativity with PDF Spaces, Express Creation Tools, AI Agents
Adobe introduces Acrobat Studio, a first-of-its-kind destination that empowers people to enhance their productivity, quickly and easily create stand-out content and get fast, helpful insights to work smarter New PDF Spaces turn collections of files and websites into sharable, conversational knowledge hubs with personalized AI Assistants, transforming PDFs from static files into a dynamic environment for uncovering insights, generating ideas, surfacing recommendations and synthesizing information Acrobat Studio combines Adobe Express content creation capabilities with trusted PDF tools and agentic AI, making it seamless to create, edit, share and learn from documents and visual content in the same place SAN JOSE, Calif., August 19, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) launched Acrobat Studio, a transformative home for productivity and creativity that unites Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express and AI agents to empower people to quickly, easily and intuitively do their best work. Acrobat Studio transforms PDFs into conversational knowledge hubs that enable people to use customizable AI Assistants to unlock and share insights, answers and recommendations – then seamlessly bring that information to life with easy-to-use Adobe Express creation tools, templates and Adobe Firefly-powered image and video generation. Acrobat Studio marks a significant milestone in the history of PDF, which Adobe invented in 1993 and has since become the standard for the world's most important information, with more than 3 trillion PDFs in circulation. Today, Acrobat is evolving from a leading document productivity app to a first-of-its kind productivity and creativity destination where people get to insights faster, create standout content and collaborate more seamlessly. The new Acrobat Studio includes PDF Spaces, which transforms collections of PDFs, web pages and other files into dynamic experiences that help people work smarter and faster using AI agents to derive insights from their files. Acrobat Studio also brings together Acrobat's full suite of PDF tools for scanning, e-signing, editing and combining documents, specialized contract AI and new capabilities for summarizing scanned documents with AI. Adobe is delivering on this vision by leveraging its decades-long leadership in document productivity, creative technologies, AI and machine learning. "Acrobat Studio is the place where your best work comes together, uniting the productivity of Acrobat, the creative power of Adobe Express and the value of AI to empower you to work smarter and faster," said Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president, Document Product Group. "We're reinventing PDF for modern work, so whatever you need to get done, you can do that with Acrobat." Acrobat Studio: The Transformative Home for AI Productivity & Creativity By transforming static files into conversational knowledge hubs, Acrobat Studio redefines how everyone from business professionals to consumers to students engage with AI to get work done. For example, business professionals can engage with their files, derive insights fast and turn these insights into polished reports or infographics – all without leaving Acrobat. Students can organize their notes into study guides, consolidate their research and generate precise citations from their sources. Consumers can scan mortgage contracts and auto lease agreements, ask AI Assistants to explain the details and then e-sign and submit the paperwork – from the same place. Travelers can use Acrobat Studio to collect brochures, reviews, itineraries and recommendations and have AI Assistants help them plan the perfect trip. Acrobat Studio seamlessly unites Adobe products and tools including Acrobat AI Assistant, PDF Spaces, Adobe Express Premium's content creation tools and all of the trusted PDF tools in Acrobat Pro. PDF Spaces PDF Spaces – a new, dynamic work environment in Acrobat Studio – transforms collections of files and websites into conversational knowledge hubs. Individuals and teams can engage with their files using agentic AI Assistants to uncover insights, acquire recommendations, generate ideas, validate responses with precise citations and add notes they can revisit anytime. AI Assistants in PDF Spaces can be assigned specific roles, like "instructor," "analyst" or "entertainer," to help synthesize information, answer questions and use reasoning to suggest further areas to explore. For example, a pre-built AI Assistant taking on the role of "instructor" would present information in the style a teacher would to a student. Customers can also personalize AI Assistants to take on a defined new role to fit the specific needs of their project. Entire PDF Spaces, including personalized AI Assistants, can be shared with colleagues, customers and classmates. This ensures seamless collaboration by allowing recipients to interact with the same knowledge hub and extract insights effortlessly. Easy Content Creation with Adobe Express Pairing all the benefits of content consumption, editing and analysis, Acrobat Studio makes it easy to create standout content like infographics, presentations, flyers and social posts using tools from Adobe Express – the quick and easy, all-in-one creation app. Acrobat Studio comes with access to Adobe Express Premium's entire suite of tools and assets, including professionally designed templates, brand kits and Adobe Firefly-powered tools like Text-to-Video and Text-to-Image so you can bring your message to life in rich and compelling visualizations with the ease of generative AI. Trusted PDF Tools Acrobat Studio brings together all the industry-leading PDF tools from Acrobat Pro that hundreds of millions of people rely upon to edit documents, combine files, scan hardcopies, e-sign agreements and contracts, redact, compare and protect their PDFs. It includes AI-powered capabilities for generating summaries of document content, including scanned documents and contracts. Enterprise Grade Content & Data Security Acrobat Studio equips enterprises with trusted tools to increase their productivity and easily create visual content, empowering IT leaders to consolidate technology tools and keep data safe, with the trusted AI enterprises already depend upon. It is purpose built for transparency, control and security with state-of-the-art encryption, a secure sandboxed environment, compliance-ready features and centralized deployment. Acrobat Studio only analyzes documents that employees proactively ask it to use. It provides clickable citations that link directly to sources of information within the documents it is analyzing so that employees can use AI with confidence. Sales teams can use Acrobat Studio to centralize client insights, discovery notes and proposals, deploy AI Assistants to look across them, generate summaries, recommendations, insights and messaging – and turn these findings into content with Adobe Express. Finance teams can gather and analyze reports in Acrobat Studio, summarize key findings, acquire important metrics for secure sharing and use branded Adobe Express templates to create board-ready presentations. Acrobat Studio is also helpful to legal and compliance teams for consolidating memos, regulatory updates and policy drafts, identifying changes and speed reviews. Pricing and Availability Acrobat Studio is available globally in English starting today with a 14-day free trial, offering unlimited access to PDF Spaces, AI Assistants and Adobe Express Premium. Early access pricing begins at USD $24.99/month for individuals and USD $29.99/month for teams. For more information, visit here. About Adobe Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit © 2025 Adobe. All rights reserved. Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. View source version on Contacts Public relations contacts BrianDomingoAdobebdomingo@
Engadget
13 hours ago
- Business
- Engadget
Acrobat Studio is Adobe's new AI-powered hub for PDFs
Whether you love or hate them, PDFs are an inescapable part of the job for many of us. In fact, it's safe to say the format isn't going away anytime soon, with Adobe reporting there are 3 trillion PDFs in circulation worldwide. However, there's no denying they can be a pain to work with, and in an effort to make it easier to manage projects involving multiple PDFs, Adobe is launching a new product today called Acrobat Studio. And wouldn't you know it, the company is marketing the inclusion of generative AI tools as a major selling point of the suite. The main feature of Acrobat Studio are hubs Adobe calls PDF Spaces. Here, you can upload up to 100 files — including PDFs of course, alongside public web pages, RTFs, DOCXs and more — and Acrobat Studio's built-in AI assistants will help you make sense of everything. To start, the hub will generate a summary of all the documents, with a few pre-populated prompts to help with further analysis. Accompanying each bullet point from the AI is a citation you can use to verify the model's summary by quickly jumping to the document it pulled the information from. Sharing your PDF Spaces with colleagues is built right into Acrobat Studio. In addition to chatting with Acrobat Studio's AI assistant, you can create custom assistants to carry out specific tasks. By default, Adobe offers three of these — analyst, instructor and entertainer — to get you started. The names do a decent job of communicating each assistant's purpose. For example, the instructor will attempt to explain complex topics. You can create your own by writing a set of custom prompts. There are some notable limitations to PDF Spaces. For one, the hub's generative AI features currently only work with documents written in English. Adobe says it will add support for other languages "over time." Similarly, the hub can't analyze videos, handwritten notes and password-protected files. Outside of PDF Spaces, Acrobat Studio offers access to Adobe Express built right into the app, meaning you can use Adobe's Firefly AI models to generate commercially safe images for your PDFs. As you would expect, the suite also comes with Adobe Acrobat and all the tools you might need to create and edit your own protected documents. Pricing for Acrobat Studio starts at $25 per month for individuals, with a 14-day trial available.
Axios
13 hours ago
- Business
- Axios
Adobe taps AI to teach Acrobat new tricks
Adobe is adding generative AI to Acrobat, its venerable tool for creating and managing PDF files. Why it matters: Adobe and its rivals are racing to incorporate AI into their products before chatbots can render traditional software obsolete. Driving the news: Adobe on Tuesday launched Acrobat Studio, a subscription service that allows individuals or groups to query a series of documents, generating answers complete with citations. How it works: Customers can combine up to 100 documents into what Adobe calls "PDF Spaces." Acrobat Studio automatically organizes and summarizes the data, and users can ask questions or use the results to create presentations and other documents. The service focuses on the types of data found in PDFs, but Acrobat Studio also works with Word documents, PowerPoint, Excel and web pages. Available on desktop, web and mobile, Adobe Studio is priced at $29.95 per month for businesses and $25 per month for individuals. The subscription also includes the premium version of Adobe Express. The big picture: Adobe isn't the only software giant infusing AI throughout its product line. Salesforce kicked off a big agent push this year and Microsoft has added AI Copilot to nearly all of its key products. Zoom in: Adobe pitches itself as a creator-friendly alternative to other AI offerings. Its Firefly features are safe for commercial use because they're trained only on data that's either licensed by Adobe or in the public domain. Adobe also said it won't train its models on customer data. Our thought bubble: Adobe sent several documents related to the Acrobat Studio launch in a PDF Space. It's pretty nice to just ask questions of a press kit. I asked "How much does this cost?" and "Which document types are supported" and got the information almost immediately, rather than the usual process of hunting through various press releases, blog posts and spec sheets. It's something I probably could have done myself by importing the documents into ChatGPT or another app, but this was more convenient, and the included citations allowed me to easily double-check that there weren't any hallucinations. Yes, but: Some say Adobe still isn't moving fast enough. "Adobe is off to a slower AI start than we had anticipated," financial analyst Dan Ives said in a research note, removing the company from Wedbush's AI 30 list. Ives and colleagues say they have increased concerns that Adobe will see its products disrupted by AI, rather than benefiting from it. AI is getting rapidly better at creating software on demand that could eventually be far cheaper than off-the-shelf tools, while also being more personalized to an individual person or business. Between the lines: Although Adobe created the PDF format, it's now an openly available standard, and plenty of other services on the market allow people to query PDF and other document types. Adobe pitched Acrobat Studio as a more capable and secure option, especially for handling long documents and documents with charts, as well as those created by scanning a physical paper document, still a popular use of PDFs. "Even though other tools can do some of the capabilities, it's high risk," Adobe VP of product marketing Michi Alexander told Axios.
