Adobe has significantly upgraded its Acrobat and Express platforms with new artificial intelligence features, enhancing how users create, edit, and collaborate on documents and creative projects. The updates, announced in late 2025 and early 2026, aim to boost productivity and transform complex data into engaging content. Key additions include AI tools for generating presentations and podcasts directly from documents, along with advanced chat-based editing capabilities.[itbrief+4]
Acrobat Gains New AI Power
Adobe Acrobat now includes an AI Assistant designed to streamline document interaction. This assistant can summarize lengthy PDF documents, answer specific questions about their content, and cite sources directly within the document. It also suggests follow-up questions to help users explore information more deeply.This AI Assistant helps users quickly grasp key concepts and themes from complex files.[helpx+2]
Beyond summaries, Acrobat introduces a "Generative Summary" feature that creates concise overviews and outlines with section summaries, providing clickable links to the original content.Another powerful new tool is "Generate Presentation." Users can ask the AI Assistant to create an outline from their files. Acrobat then uses Adobe Express tools to design a draft presentation, allowing users to set the length and tone.Users can also edit this draft within Acrobat using Express tools without generating new slides each time.[helpx+6]
Chat-based editing is another major addition. Users can now give natural language prompts to the AI Assistant to perform common PDF tasks. These tasks include removing pages, text, comments, and images, finding and replacing words, and adding e-signatures or passwords.The enhanced Help Panel also offers chat guidance for step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting.[itbrief+4]
A unique feature called "Generate Podcast" creates audio summaries from documents. This allows users to process large amounts of information, such as notes, transcripts, or long reports, without reading them on screen.Users can pull material into a "PDF Space" and ask the AI Assistant for a podcast-style summary, useful for meeting preparation or personal learning.Adobe stated this feature targets meeting preparation and can be used on the go.[itbrief+6]
Collaboration features in PDF Spaces also received an upgrade. Users can invite others to add files, notes, or comments, helping teams work smarter and make faster decisions.These new AI capabilities are available within Acrobat Studio, which Adobe describes as a central hub for PDF tools, smart workspaces, and AI assistants.[blog+3]
Express Boosts Creative Workflows
Adobe Express, known for its user-friendly design tools, has also seen significant AI enhancements, many of which are powered by Adobe Firefly technology.These updates aim to make content creation faster and more accessible for everyone. Adobe Express users have reported reducing design time by up to 70% across their creative workflows.[accio+2]
One key feature is "Generative Fill," which allows users to insert, remove, or replace objects in images using simple text descriptions."Text to Template" lets users generate editable templates for social posts, posters, flyers, and digital cards from text prompts."Text Effects" applies special effects to text based on photographic elements, helping designs stand out.[accio+9]
Adobe Express also includes a "Translate" feature that supports content creation in over 45 languages. This helps businesses localize marketing materials and product descriptions for global markets.Other notable AI features in Express include "Generate Image" for creating visuals from text descriptions, "Generate Video" for producing short videos from prompts, and "AI Captions" for videos.[accio+3]
The platform also offers "Animate Designs" to add motion, "Remove Background" for images and videos, and "Enhance Speech" to improve audio quality."Smart Resize" quickly adapts designs for multiple platforms, while "AI Rewrite and Copy Suggestions" help create different versions of text.For social media, "AI Social Media Captions" and "Clipmaker" (for turning long videos into short clips) are available.[youtube+2]
Availability and Impact
Adobe introduced the new AI Assistant (beta) in Adobe Express at Adobe MAX on October 28, 2025.The AI features for Acrobat, including Generate Presentation and Generate Podcast, were announced on January 21, 2026.[news+3]
While some AI Assistant beta features were initially available for free in Acrobat, the full range of capabilities typically requires a paid Adobe Acrobat subscription, which can cost around $19.99 per month with annual billing.These features may have limitations, such as being English-only and having page or file size limits for processing.Acrobat Studio, where many of these tools reside, is available for $24.99 per month.Adobe Express Premium costs $9.99 per month, offering a wide array of AI-powered tools.[pdfgear+3]
These AI integrations mark a strategic shift for Adobe, moving its document and creative tools from static functions to dynamic content creation platforms.The company aims to empower users with greater precision and control, saving time across the creative process and helping meet the increasing global demand for content.[adwaitx+1]
