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The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
As Adobe rolls out more generative AI features for the PDF, the era of chatbot-less software is firmly a thing of the past.
That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the government to your doctor’s office, could rely on digital documentation that felt familiar to the paper versions. “It wasn't like a text message, which is a native digital format or an email or a web page,” says Matthew Kirschenbaum, an English professor at the University of Maryland and author of Track Changes, a book about the history of word processing. Today, it’s launching Adobe Acrobat Studio, which further leans into the software’s AI-powered aspects and includes “PDF spaces” where users can upload multiple documents and personalize how the chatbot assistant answers questions.
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