Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs
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Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other documents. The AI assistant will help users digest information from long PDF documents by generating brief overviews of their contents, the company said. Adobe said the AI assistant can also generate citations that allow users to verify the source of the tools answers, and can produce text for various formats such as emails, presentations and reports, according to the news release. In an interview on CNBCs "Squawk on the Street" on Tuesday, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said the new tool represents the companys goal to "democratize access" to the trillions of PDFs in use. Last week, OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT, launched a new tool that generates realistic, high-definition video off a text prompt.