Adobe is rolling out new sharing capabilities for PDF Spaces in Acrobat today, letting users turn static materials into interactive, AI-powered summaries, audio overviews, branded presentations, and even a custom chatbot for recipients. Here are the details.
Acrobat now creates interactive workspaces from static PDFs
Adobe’s push into AI-powered experiences continues today with the launch of Acrobat PDF Spaces sharing.
In a nutshell, it lets users upload a series of PDFs, documents, notes, and links to Acrobat, and then interact with Adobe’s AI assistant to “surface insights, edit documents and generate presentations, podcasts, blogs and social posts,” in a fully-editable interactive workspace.
Here’s Adobe on what the new productivity agent on Acrobat enables:
- Create a tailored space. Bring PDFs, documents, links and notes together in one place. The agent quickly generates the space so the sender can focus on refining the experience with context, structure, emphasis and multimedia content so recipients can focus on what matters most. When documents are updated, the shared experience updates, too, so recipients always have the latest view.
- Customize an AI Assistant to fit the moment. Tell the AI Assistant about your goals and recipients. Share it along with the experience to answer questions, provide suggestions and help recipients get the information they need to make confident decisions.
- Get recipients up to speed fast with an audio overview. The agent automatically generates an audio summary of the information to help orient recipients before they dive in. A fully editable script helps ensure the right message comes through every time.
- Add branding. Include a logo to create a professional, on-brand experience.
- Follow up with confidence. The agent provides engagement insights to help make follow-up timely and informed.
In an example shared by the company, a user uploads several documents related to a pitch they need to make to a prospective customer.
After discussing and refining the best approach with Adobe Acrobat’s AI, the platform generates a shareable, custom interactive experience with images, a brand story, and a product explorer featuring details, sell-through, margin, and other relevant information pulled from the original documents and shaped by the conversation.
With everything set, the user can share this interactive experience with the client, who can, in turn, also have a conversation with the platform’s AI assistant to ask questions and better explore and understand the material.
After sharing the link to the interactive experience, the original author can access engagement analytics that show total views, named recipients, individual viewer activity, forwarding details, and per-recipient view counts.
While today’s news has broader appeal for professional use cases, including sales teams, executives and finance teams, marketers, HR, and compliance leaders, it can also be used for personal purposes, such as putting together, exploring, and sharing travel itineraries or event details.
Watch the new platform in action below:
Here’s Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president of Adobe Document Cloud, on today’s launch:
“We’re not just adding new features, we’re introducing a new format. (…) For the first time, sharing documents means sharing an experience that’s tailored to your intended audience, whether that’s a client, a team or a million subscribers. Now every one of those experiences can be as personal and purposeful as the work that went into creating it.”
The new Productivity Agent and PDF Spaces are available in both Acrobat Express, and Acrobat Studio.
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