Adobe launches new Acrobat Studio for PDF power users - and it has more AI than you'll know what to do with

Date:
Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:59:00 +0000

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The company has launched a space that brings together Acrobat Pro, Adobe Express, and a whole lot of AI.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Adobe Acrobat Studio announced New hubs for managing, understanding, and creating documents Platform fuses Acrobat Pro, Adobe Express, new specialized AI assistants

Adobe has unveiled its new Acrobat Studio, which aims to become the nerve center for productivity and creativity tasks - and a life-saver for anyone drowning in documents.

The platform fuses the full Acrobat Pro experience with extra AI tools, Adobe Express, and new spaces that the company says transforms PDFs into conversational knowledge hubs that enable people to use customizable AI Assistants to unlock and share insights, answers and recommendations.

Thats business-speak for saying Acrobat Studios AI should make it easier to understand document contents. Adobes Abhigyan Modi, senior vice president, Document Product Group, gave me a demo of the new tools. Heres what you need to know What is Adobe Acrobat Studio and whats new? (Image credit: Adobe)

Adobe Acrobat Studio effectively attempts to solve some of the issues faced
by those managing or accessing documents. Namely, file storage, collaborative or communication breakdown, content creation, and information overload.

On the launch of Adobe Acrobat Studio, Modi said: Were reinventing PDF for modern work, so whatever you need to get done, you can do that with Acrobat.

Use-cases highlighted by Adobe include centralizing client insights, creating polished, on-brand proposals, grabbing key metrics for secure sharing, and reviewing resumes. Effectively, if it's a document, Acrobat Studio can probably do something with it.

Acrobat is already home to an AI Assistant, Firefly, and - in an interesting use of the technology - a contract explainer that helpfully summarizes jargon-heavy legal documents. Those constant updates are one of the reasons why I rank it as the best PDF editor around. But Acrobat Studio ramps that integration up to eleven. PDF Spaces (Image credit: Adobe)

PDF Spaces is the headline addition. Its also the area Modi told me hes most excited about with this launch, keen to see how users benefit from them.

These are AI-driven hubs for up to 100 files (format support goes way beyond PDF). Upload a file, and PDF Spaces generates what Adobe dubs an AI-powered workspace, loading in suggested goals, actionable insights, citations.

Its a space, Adobe says, where users can use AI to question, compare, and summarize information in documents. A conversational knowledge hub, if you like. Specialized assistants (Image credit: Adobe)

One of PDF Spaces biggest strengths is that it expands on the familiar AI Assistant already found in Adobe Acrobat for more tailored responses.

Three specialized AI assistants are baked into the workspace, with the option to create a custom one. The Analyst, the Instructor, and the Entertainer each approach information differently in ways that should, in theory, be more helpful to users.

This is a core element, Modi explained, of Adobes focus on the needs of different users. Where the Entertainer toys with language and creativity,
the Analyst studies and uncovers new thoughts; the Instructor makes complex topics accessible. Adobe Express integration (Image credit: Adobe)

Adobe Express has been getting a lot of attention lately, with an expanded toolset and integration with a host of Creative Cloud apps. So, perhaps it
was just a matter of time before it joined fully with Acrobat.

The popular, free online design tool is a core part of Acrobat Studio. With the full-fat Adobe Express Premium tools, users can create (or generate) professional templates, presentations, reports, and social media posts.

The Creative Cloud Pro plan combines over twenty Adobe apps into a single subscription, giving you access to Acrobat, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and more. The plan also includes 4000 monthly credits for Adobe
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