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.

Turn off or restrict AI Assistant at the machine or group le in Adobe Acrobat — How-to & AI prompts

AI prompts

3 ways to ask · copy any one

AExecute — “help me do it”Turn off the AI Assistant for [machine/group] in Acrobat.…+

Turn off the AI Assistant for [machine or group name] in Adobe Acrobat and confirm it is disabled.

when the reply comes backWould you like to check if the AI Assistant is still off later?

BImprove — “do it better”Make sure AI Assistant is fully restricted for all users in [group].…+

Check and improve the settings to make sure the AI Assistant is fully restricted for all users in [machine or group name].

when the reply comes backNeed help setting this up for more machines or groups?

CDecide — “help me choose”Help me decide if I should turn off or just limit AI Assistant.…+

Help me decide whether I should completely turn off the AI Assistant or just limit its features for [machine or group name].

when the reply comes backWant tips on explaining these changes to your team or class?

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.

RestrictTo limit or stop someone from doing something.ExampleThe company policy restricts employees from accessing certain websites during work hours.

Group LevelSettings that affect several computers or users at once, not just one.ExampleAn IT administrator applies a group level setting to update the security software on all office computers.

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

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To turn off the AI Assistant for a single computer, you need to go into the settings of Adobe Acrobat on that computer and find the option to disable or restrict the AI Assistant. This will stop users on that computer from using its features.

Restricting at the group level means you set rules that affect several computers or users at once. This is useful if you want to control access for a whole class, department, or team instead of doing it one by one.

A school might turn off the AI Assistant to prevent students from getting extra help during tests, to keep learning fair, or to protect student privacy by limiting what AI can access.

Yes, turning off means no one can use the AI Assistant at all, while restricting means you can limit what it can do or who can use it. You can choose what works best for your needs.

Yes, you can go back into the settings at any time to turn the AI Assistant back on or change the restrictions. The changes are not permanent and can be updated as needed.

Turn off or restrict AI Assistant at the machine or group le

When to use it

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How to do it

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