By Jim Lundy
Adobe Announced Its New AI Assistant for Acrobat: It Looks Promising
While it’s still in beta or licensed customers, Aragon Research expects that Adobe will use this time to get its customers to do some serious testing of the feature set, so that when it’s generally available, it will be more robust and hardened.
This blog discusses some of the key capabilities of Adobe‘s new AI assistant for Acrobat.
What are the Key Capabilities of Adobe AI Assistant?
- One of the key capabilities is answering questions about content across multiple document types.
- Able to generate content based on questions or inquiries. The use case for generating content will be for first drafts.
- Able to summarize content inside of a long document.
- Allow for the generation of citations from documents. (We expect this capability to be popular.)
- Able to format answers into easy-to-read structures.
Analysis
The Adobe AI Assistant for Acrobat shows some great promise. However, one of the questions will be how the AI Assistant will access other document types since most of the Adobe Document Cloud is for its flagship PDF format.
Aragon Research feels that the Adobe AI assistant for Acrobat could go much further if the document cloud were to become a full repository and compete against Microsoft SharePoint. However, today that is not the case.
Competing Against CoPilot for Microsoft 365
The Adobe AI Assistant for Acrobat does make it a competitor for Microsoft 365 CoPilot. We will monitor the rollout of Microsoft Copilot and the Adobe AI Assistant, to see which one will be the pick with customers.
Adobe AI Assistant’s Pricing and Availability
Right now, the Adobe AI Assistant is in beta test and is available for Acrobat standard and pro-individual and team subscription plans. The product will be available for reader plans over the next few weeks. Pricing has not been announced for what it will cost after the beta test is over.
We will monitor this to see where they come in as competitors like Google recently lowered their Gemini price to $20 per user per month.
Bottom line
Adobe has a great opportunity with its new AI assistant for Acrobat. The promise to answer questions about multiple types looks strong. However, most enterprises do not use Adobe Document Cloud for the storage of other types.
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