Adobe launches Acrobat Studio with AI, PDF tools
Adobe has launched Acrobat Studio, introducing a platform that combines PDF tools, creative content production and generative AI capabilities aimed at boosting productivity and collaboration across work and personal projects.
Acrobat Studio brings together functions from Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express, and new AI-powered agents under a single platform, enabling users to transform traditional static PDFs into interactive knowledge hubs. According to Adobe, more than 3 trillion PDFs are in circulation globally, and Acrobat Studio aims to give new utility to this widespread file format by layering intelligence and creativity functions onto document workflows.
Platform features
Central to the new platform is the introduction of PDF Spaces, which allows users to gather collections of PDFs, website links and other documents into dynamic environments. These hubs can be explored with the help of AI Assistants, which are designed to uncover insights, provide recommendations and generate ideas from the collective knowledge housed in each PDF Space. The AI Assistants can be assigned roles such as "instructor", "analyst", or "entertainer", and customers are able to customise these assistants according to the needs of their projects.
Users can share entire PDF Spaces - including any personalised AI Assistants - with colleagues, clients or classmates, thereby creating a collaborative environment where information can be analysed, summarised, or synthesised by multiple participants. The PDF Spaces are intended to support a range of activities, from organising research and verifying sources, to summarising documents or preparing collaborative notes and study guides.
Acrobat Studio is the place where your best work comes together, uniting the productivity of Acrobat, the creative power of Adobe Express and the value of AI to empower you to work smarter and faster. We're reinventing PDF for modern work, so whatever you need to get done, you can do that with Acrobat.
Creative and PDF tools
Acrobat Studio integrates Adobe Express Premium's content creation toolkit, which includes professionally designed templates, brand kits, and Firefly-powered image and video generation. Users can create materials such as infographics, presentations and social media posts directly within the platform. This enables a consolidated workflow where consumption, analysis and content creation can all happen in one place without switching between software.
The suite also includes Acrobat's established PDF tools for editing, combining files, scanning hardcopies, signing agreements and redacting sensitive information. New AI-driven capabilities within Acrobat Studio facilitate generating summaries of long documents, including scanned contracts or multi-page reports, to help users find key data points quickly and efficiently.
Data security and enterprise features
From an enterprise perspective, Acrobat Studio includes measures focused on transparency, control and security. The platform uses encryption, contains a sandboxed environment and provides compliance-ready features and central administration tools. The AI Assistants are restricted to analysing only the documents users specifically designate, and clickable citations are provided for AI responses, linking back to original sources for verification.
Adobe has stated that its AI models are not trained on customer data, and third-party vendors are also prohibited from using customer data for model training. These measures aim to support organisations required to manage sensitive information in finance, legal, sales and compliance teams.
Applications and use cases
Business professionals can extract insights from collections of files to create polished reports or infographics, while finance teams can create board-ready presentations using metrics summarised from documents within PDF Spaces. Legal and compliance teams are offered tools for consolidating memos, regulatory updates and draft policies. Students can use the platform to organise notes, confirm sources, and generate citations efficiently. Consumers are able to scan and understand contracts with the help of AI, e-sign documents, and manage paperwork within a unified environment.
For teams, Acrobat Studio's collaborative features mean that centralised knowledge bases with shared AI Assistants can streamline communication and project documentation, from client proposals and product discovery notes to policy drafts and regulatory summaries.
Availability and pricing
Acrobat Studio is offered globally in English and comes with a 14-day free trial. Early access pricing is set at USD $24.99 per month for individuals and USD $29.99 per month for teams, with unlimited access to PDF Spaces, AI Assistants and Adobe Express Premium tools included in each subscription.
