How can AI Assistant help me summarize a board narrative quickly?

Open your board narrative PDF in Acrobat. Click the 'AI Assistant' button. Select 'Generate AI summaries'. This gives you an outline and key insights with links to the original text. This saves time by highlighting the most important parts for your board narrative.

What is the main purpose of AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat?

The main purpose of AI Assistant is to help you understand and get information from your PDF documents faster. It can answer questions, summarize content, and find insights, making it easier to work with long or complex files.

If I have multiple documents for a board meeting, can AI Assistant help me get insights from all of them at once?

Yes, AI Assistant can help with this using 'PDF Spaces'. You can upload up to 100 PDFs, Office files, notes, transcripts, or web links into a Space. Then, you can ask questions and get insights that cover all these documents together, which is very useful for preparing for a board meeting with many sources.

Why is it important that AI Assistant provides source citations for its answers?

Source citations are very important because they let you check where the AI Assistant got its information. This means you can trust the answers more, as you can click the link and see the exact part of the document. It helps you confirm facts and makes sure the AI isn't just guessing, especially for important board narratives.

How does AI Assistant compare to just reading a PDF by myself for understanding a document?

Feature AI Assistant Reading Manually. Speed Very fast for summaries and answers. Can be slow, especially for long documents. Key Insights Generates outlines and main ideas quickly. Requires careful reading and note-taking to find them. Information Check Provides source links to verify answers. You find and check information yourself. Question Answering Answers specific questions directly from the document. You must read and find answers yourself. Judgment Surfaces and summarizes, but human judgment is needed. Full human judgment applied throughout.

Enable or disable AI Assistant for all users in Adobe Acrobat — How-to & AI prompts

AI prompts

3 ways to ask · copy any one

AExecute — “help me do it”Please enable or disable AI Assistant for all users in...…+

Please enable or disable AI Assistant for all users in [organization/class/group] using Adobe Acrobat.

when the reply comes backWould you like steps for individual users instead?

BImprove — “do it better”Can you review if AI Assistant is correctly enabled or...…+

Can you review if AI Assistant is correctly enabled or disabled for everyone in [organization/class/group]?

when the reply comes backNeed help explaining AI Assistant to your team?

CDecide — “help me choose”Should I enable or disable AI Assistant for all users in...…+

Should I enable or disable AI Assistant for all users in [organization/class/group]? What are the pros and cons?

when the reply comes backWant to set up more controls for Acrobat features?

How to do it

the tool · the steps · what to avoid

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Open your PDF file in Adobe Acrobat Pro (desktop app).
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Look for the AI Assistant panel or button, typically located in the right-hand toolbar or as a floating button.
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If you do not see the AI Assistant, go to the Edit menu and select Preferences.
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In Preferences, look for AI settings; if present, enable the checkbox to turn on the AI Assistant.
Best practiceIf the AI Assistant is not visible after subscribing, restarting Acrobat may be required for the feature to appear.
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Return to your PDF and click the AI Assistant button to activate it.
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Type your question or prompt about the PDF content into the AI Assistant input box and press Enter.
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Review the AI Assistant's response, and use the provided options to ask follow-up questions or copy the answer.
CautionSensitive documents may be processed by Adobe servers when using AI features; review your organization's data policies before enabling.

In the appWith the API

You can use the AI Assistant to quickly summarize, search, or ask questions about the content of your open PDF without leaving Acrobat.

This runs in the Acrobat app - there is no separate API for this task.

Glossary

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AI AssistantA tool in Acrobat that lets you ask questions about your PDF and get answers with source links.ExampleYou ask the AI Assistant, 'What are the main conclusions?' and it provides a summary with page numbers.

EnableTo turn something on so people can use it.ExampleYou can enable spell check in your document settings so it automatically corrects typos.

DisableTo turn something off so people cannot use it.ExampleYou can disable comments on a shared document so no one can add new ones.

The real tasks

the one, listed here

I have 48 hours to prep a clean narrative for the board and I want the right causal story, not a scattershot list.

FAQ

about this task

You can enable or disable AI Assistant for everyone by going into your organization's Adobe Admin settings and changing the AI Assistant option. This will turn it on or off for all users at once.

Enabling AI Assistant means everyone in your group can use the tool to help with documents, like summarizing or answering questions, inside Adobe Acrobat.

Yes, if you are an admin, you can decide if all users or only certain groups have access to AI Assistant by changing the settings in your admin panel.

Yes, enabling it for one user means only that person can use it, while enabling it for all users lets everyone in your organization or group use the AI Assistant.

Some people might want to turn it off to keep things simple, prevent distractions, or because they have privacy or security concerns about using AI tools.

Enable or disable AI Assistant for all users

When to use it

AI prompts

How to do it

Glossary

The real tasks

Who does this

FAQ

Sources

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