Adobe Acrobat evolves beyond PDFs with enterprise search, AI content creation

Adobe on Wednesday unveiled a range of updates to Acrobat, including the ability to turn PDF documents into interactive visual reports and podcasts. And a new Knowledge Base feature connects Adobe’s Acrobat AI assistant to document sources such as Microsoft SharePoint and Google Drive. It’s the biggest Acrobat update in several years, Adobe said, and highlights the application’s evolution from PDF reader to what the company now describes as an AI-powered document productivity and creativity platform. Acrobat users open more than 400 billion PDFs in the app each year, Adobe said, claiming 650 million monthly active users as of last year. Among the new additions is the ability to turn dense PDFs into interactive, visual documents and presentation slides. To create these, Acrobat’s AI assistant scans the selected file, asks questions about the user’s intent, then generates documents charts, images and navigation. It’s also possible to turn documents and web links into podcast-style audio summaries — similar to capabilities in Google’s NotebookLLM and Microsoft Copilot Notebook. A new Stylize feature can enhance plain-looking documents, applying a template to turn them into “professio…

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