PDFs

Adobe has announced generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for its web client and desktop app of Acrobat. The software giant has added an AI Assistant that can do multiple tasks and help users easily understand and analyse large PDF files. One notable feature will summarise files and present it in a formatted and easy to follow text block. The feature is currently in beta testing but the company has highlighted it will soon be made available to Acrobat customers with an add-on…

Adobe Adobe is delving deeper into implementing AI in its most popular services, this time with a new Assistant AI for Acrobat. The generative AI-powered conversational engine is available today in beta and will make available a host of tools to heighten how people process and understand documents in Adobe. The features will be available in Acrobat Standard, Pro Individual, and Teams subscription plans on desktop and web during the beta period at no additional cost. The AI features are even coming to Reader, the…

AdobeWhether it's a contract you have to sign, a receipt you're viewing, or a report you're about to read, most electronic documents you interact with every day are in PDF format. To optimize how you engage with your PDFs, Adobe is introducing a new AI Assistant. On Tuesday, Adobe unveiled its new AI Assistant beta in Acrobat and Reader, an AI-powered conversational engine that can answer any user question about a document, and generate summaries, and more. Also: I tested Meta's Code Lama with 3 AI coding challenges…

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Ever since the emergence of ChatGPT in November 2022, companies around the world have been making efforts to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) technology into their suite of products. Consequently, ChatGPT has become synonymous with AI chatbots and is certainly one of the most popular ones in the world. This AI chatbot can be considered the pioneer of conversational chatbots. In October, ChatGPT got a major upgrade which finally allowed users to upload PDFs. But it was rolled out as part of ChatGPT Plus, the paid…

The Files by Google app streamlined your ability to manage and share documents, photos and other data on your Android, version 5.0 & up. AMERICANS WORRY THESE ‘CREEPY’ DEEPFAKES WILL MANIPULATE PEOPLE IN 2024 ELECTION, 'DISTURBINGLY FALSE’Now Smart Search on Google’s Files app takes it a step further by allowing you to find text and objects in images and documents, including PDF files, on your device. Files by Google app. (Google)How to access Files by Google appYou can access the app by downloading it from the…

Illustration: Samar Haddad / The Verge Google Drive users on Android have had the ability to scan documents and save them as PDFs for a while now. However, recently Google has upgraded that feature for Android users, adding automatic captures, among other upgrades, and is also rolling out the feature for iOS users. As soon as it is available on my iPhone, I will add directions for the iOS version. Meanwhile, here’s how you can scan to a PDF using Google Drive. This example was done on a Google…

Google will soon make it easier to interact with PDFs if you have low vision. The company is adding OCR (optical character recognition) technology to Chrome that can convert PDFs to text that makes them more accessible, particularly if you want a screen reader to read them aloud. The tool will also provide image descriptions. The feature will be available in the "coming months," Google says. The company also plans to expand the functionality beyond Chrome later this year, although it hasn't said which platforms might…

Some of the text conversations you have on your iPhone are more important than others. In fact, some of them are so important that you might want a digital backup in case you need to reference those texts in the future. Sure, you can settle for taking a screenshot and saving it in the cloud, but did you know that it’s also possible to export any of your text messages as PDFs on your iPhone? Not only is it possible — it’s pretty easy to do as well! How to export text messages as PDFs on iPhone If you want to…