Alongside new AI-powered features that turn PDFs into podcasts and presentations, Adobe’s latest Acrobat update introduces a handy conversational editing tool. Similar to the document editing capabilities Anthropic added to its Claude chatbot last year, Acrobat’s AI Assistant now lets users perform essential PDF tasks using natural-language prompts.
Adobe says that the chat-based AI in Acrobat now offers a smarter and faster way to edit PDFs. Users can remove pages, text, comments, and images, add e-signatures and passwords, and handle other tasks simply by chatting with the AI. Instead of digging through menus or remembering where specific tools live, users can simply type what they want done and let the AI handle the edit.
The feature is designed to address one of the most common complaints about PDFs. While the format remains widely used for contracts, reports, and official documents, editing PDFs has always felt unintuitive, especially for casual users. By letting users make edits with natural-language prompts, Adobe has significantly lowered the barrier to making quick edits.
PDF editing made simple
With this feature, users can simply tell the AI Assistant to delete a specific page, remove comments, add password protection, or insert an e-signature with a short prompt instead of following multiple confusing steps, making routine PDF edits faster and more intuitive.
In addition to new AI tools in Acrobat, Adobe has rolled out similar capabilities in Premiere. The company recently introduced an Object Mask tool that uses on-device AI to help users generate a mask simply by hovering over and clicking a subject.