Discover PDF insights with AI Assistant

Learn how to gain insights from your PDF files using AI Assistant. AI Assistant is a secure conversational engine that improves document workflows by analyzing document data. I’ll walk through a workflow where I need to create a business report on industry digital trends. Typically creating this report involves collecting information from different sources, analyzing and consolidating the content, and sometimes tackling writer’s block, a time-consuming process that often takes hours. A colleague just sent me this digital trend report for the financial services industry. I’ll launch AI Assistant to process the document. It provides an overview along with three suggestions as a starting point. So instead of reading through this 14 page document with graphs, stats, and case studies to see if it has any relevance, I can simply ask questions that pertain to the report I’m creating. So I’ll ask, what are the digital trends in financial markets? In response I get a well written, well structured answer that is meaningful and concise. What is also helpful are the attributions to the source text in the document. When I select these attributions, I’m immediately taken to the location in the document where it’s discussed, making it easy for me to verify the accuracy of the response. These attributions are possible due to Adobe’s proprietary data extraction and attribution technology, and a deep understanding of complex documents. We pre and post process the output of the LLM, Language Learning Model, to provide high quality, accurate, relevant, and easy to verify insights. If you need to step away from your computer, you can continue analyzing reports using the Acrobat Mobile app to see if they contain any relevance. I’m going to go ahead and use a speech to text icon to ask, what are the top digital trends in the high tech industry? And again, I get a well structured answer with attributions to the source text in the document that can be read back to me, where I can confirm the accuracy. I can immediately see that this high tech report looks very relevant for the report I’m building. Now back at my computer, I want to learn more from these two reports, and another one to gain insights and a comprehensive view across multiple industries. To do this, I select the Add Files button in the top right corner here. I’ll go ahead and select reports for the high tech industry and one on customer engagement. Notice that you can also have reports in different file formats, such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. And again, the AI assistant will go ahead and process these two new documents. Now I can ask a question looking for insights from across these three documents. I’m going to ask, what are the top digital trends discussed in these reports? And in response, I get a well structured, concise answer that again has attributions to all three different reports. And when you select the attributions, not only does each attribution go to its respective report, but also to the right place in the report. So it’s very easy for the user to again verify the accuracy of the response and to easily navigate. Now across different types of documents, I can easily copy this response with the Copy button here. And include it in my report that I’m building. Another typical task when dealing with multiple industries is to compare specific trends from across all the industries in each individual report. So back in Acrobat, I’ll ask AI assistant to compare trends from these reports in a table form. Now AI assistant can also make table creation easier. It’s important to note that even with the two or more documents open, AI assistant responses continue to be contained to the document you tell it to look at. You’re in control. AI assistant is not looking at the documents you did not ask it to. The table showcases the reports that were in the industries as columns and trends as rows. This looks like a good summary and has attributions. So all I need to do again is to use the Copy button to add this to my report. Now the last thing I want to do is add an abstract to my report. So back in Acrobat, I’ll type summarize this as an abstract. And again, note that I did not mention digital trends. AI assistant remembers the context as if I’m having a conversation. Again, the response includes attributions, which I can check, and it’s in the right format for an abstract. So all I need to do is use the Copy button and add this to my report that I’m working on. AI assistant is an assistant, not an expert, but it’s very helpful in getting me to this draft stage, turning what might have taken me at least a couple hours into under 10 minutes. AI assistant delivers fast time to value for your company, all while making sure your data remains yours.