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Adobe · Adobe Acrobat

Acrobat AI Assistant

Conversational AI feature in Adobe Acrobat that answers questions about document content and returns generated responses with citations to the source document.

Recorded characteristics

Function
Adobe documents that AI Assistant lets a user ask questions about a document and receive generated answers, with source citations that link back to the sections of the document the answer was drawn from. Adobe states that AI Assistant answers questions about PDF content, cites specific sources within documents, suggests relevant follow-up questions, extracts insights from complex data, and can rewrite text to improve clarity and adjust tone. Adobe documents other Acrobat generative AI functions — Generative summary, PDF Spaces, Generate presentation, Generate podcast, image generation, and editing PDFs via chat — separately; those are not recorded in this entry.
Data access
Adobe documents AI Assistant operating on documents the user opens or selects: a PDF opened in Acrobat, or one or more files selected from the Acrobat home screen or uploaded in Acrobat on the web. Adobe documents multi-document questioning through PDF Spaces, which is documented as a separate feature and can include PDFs, Office files, notes, meeting transcripts and web links. Adobe also documents an AI Assistant for webpages, supported only on English-language webpages. Adobe does not document AI Assistant independently retrieving content from an organisation's wider document estate; the content processed is content the user supplies, opens or selects. Adobe states that use of generative AI features in Acrobat involves cloud processing of documents.
Actions
Generative only
External actions
Unknown
Human confirmation
Not established
Permission basis
Not established
Administrative control
Adobe documents that generative AI features are enabled by default and that individual users can turn them off in Acrobat under Preferences > Generative AI by deselecting "Enable generative AI features". Adobe also documents that administrators can revoke access for teams or organisations, that Teams administrators handle AI Assistant access requests, and that Acrobat Studio can be administered for enterprise. Adobe documents that users must be signed in with a supported Adobe ID and that generative AI features must be enabled.
Default state
Enabled
Availability
Adobe documents generative AI features across Acrobat and Acrobat Reader on Windows and macOS, Acrobat on the web, the Acrobat extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, and the Acrobat mobile app on iOS and Android (and Adobe Scan on Android). Minimum documented versions are iOS 26.02.50, Android 26.2.0.43379 and desktop 25.001.21288 or later. Documented support for AI Assistant question and answer covers files in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and Dutch; AI Assistant for webpages is documented for English-language webpages only.
Licensing
Adobe documents that access to generative AI features in Acrobat is available to customers who subscribe to plans that include AI Assistant, such as AI Assistant for Acrobat or Acrobat Studio. Adobe documents a limited number of complimentary AI Assistant Requests for other users, and 1,000 Requests per user per month for individual and team plans that include AI Assistant, with enterprise plans described as receiving full access subject to throttling. Adobe documents that Requests are tracked separately from Creative Cloud generative credits.
External model or provider
Not publicly established for this capability. Adobe states that AI Assistant "uses advanced AI models" and that the features are built on large language model technologies, but the current Acrobat documentation reviewed does not identify a specific model or provider for AI Assistant.
Limitations and uncertainty
Adobe documents file requirements of under 100 MB and up to 600 pages, no password protection or usage restrictions, and no PDF Portfolios; prompts under 500 characters; text selections under 8,000 characters on a single page; and no support for images or complex vector graphics. Adobe states that answers may be inaccurate or misleading, that AI Assistant may fail to find an answer present in the document, that attributions may rarely be incorrect, and that no attribution is provided when the question and response language differs from the document language. Adobe advises against relying on the feature for legal, medical, financial or other professional advice. Adobe separately documents editing PDFs via chat, where AI Assistant executes Acrobat tools and applies document changes after showing a preview and confirming with the user; that behaviour is documented as a separate part of the user guide and is not recorded in this entry, so the action classification here covers document question answering only.

Evidence