Adobe Wants You to Chat With PDFs
Adobe introduced a conversational AI service last week that will summarize and search the company's hallmark Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The bot will live inside subscription versions of Adobe’s Acrobat and Reader apps.
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The AI assistant, dubbed a copilot, promises big productivity gains for an additional fee. With some 400 billion PDFs opened annually and 16 billion documents edited in Acrobat last year, it's no wonder Adobe execs are amped about the service's potential.?
The company is also exploring how to use AI in the PDF creation process, such as with writing structure, tone and layout automation.
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1 年What us ordinary people do not understand or comprehend is Adobe’s #adobe to the outside World ??. Or the World ?? of communication. How does it link to its competitors? We are clueless other than to use it. We do not know how we use it why we use it well it seems to work quite well but I don’t know the details ??
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1 年As the owner of UZIMEDIA, I'm pretty excited about Adobe's new AI for PDFs. This "copilot" sounds like a game-changer for anyone dealing with loads of documents, like we do. With so many PDFs flying around every day, the idea of an AI that can summarize and search through them inside Adobe’s apps is super cool. The thought of AI helping out with PDF creation, and tweaking writing style, structure, and layout, is right up our alley. We're all about using tech to make things look and work better, so this is right on target. Would I chat with a PDF? Heck yes! If it makes getting info faster and designing easier, I'm all for it. It's all about making our work smarter, not harder, right? Adobe's stepping up with this AI, and we're here for it. Can't wait to see how it can amp up our design game and maybe even spark some new ideas for us at UZIMEDIA.
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1 年I'd have reservations about PDFs I make being fed into the maw as AI training material. We'll see how the tech shakes out.
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1 年Thank heavens you wrote 'PDFs' rather than 'PDF files' - or this headline would be a PR nightmare every time it's spoken on TV