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Adobe Acrobat Studio Transforms Productivity and Creativity with New Generative Presentations, Personal Podcasts and AI-Powered PDF Editing

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 4:00 PM

Adobe brings Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Express together to transform productivity and creativity together, making it fast and easy to generate presentations and podcasts from documents in minutes with AI
Acrobat brings AI chat to PDFs making it easier to convert, sign and share documents, delete and extract pages and more — by just asking
All new features are available in Acrobat Studio, which delivers standout content creation capabilities, collaborative PDF Spaces, personalized AI assistants and the best of Adobe’s PDF tools in one place

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Jan. 21, 2026 — Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) — the global technology leader that unleashes creativity, productivity and customer experiences through innovative tools and platforms — announced powerful AI innovations in Acrobat. New AI chat experiences make it simple to generate standout presentations and podcast-style audio summaries from documents, edit PDFs and collaborate more effectively, helping everyone do their best work.

By bringing together the power of Acrobat’s productivity tools and Express’ quick and easy content creation capabilities, anyone can surface insights from documents and webpages and turn that information into a presentation in minutes. New AI chat experiences in Acrobat provide a smarter, faster way to complete essential PDF tasks and get assistance through conversation. It’s now possible to quickly generate an engaging, personal podcast that summarizes information from documents, reports, transcripts or web pages to stay up to speed and learn more effectively anywhere — in the office and on the go. Organize materials and get insights in Acrobat PDF Spaces, now with enhanced collaboration features to help drive faster alignment and keep work moving. All new features are available in Acrobat Studio, which includes advanced PDF tools, AI Assistant and PDF Spaces from Acrobat and Express Premium capabilities in one AI-powered home for productivity.

“For anyone trying to cut through information overload and stay on top of every assignment, you can now do that with Acrobat,” said Abhigyan Modi, SVP Adobe Document Cloud. “With new AI chat-based experiences, we’re transforming how people work — making it easier to create standout presentations, comprehend information through engaging podcasts and collaborate more effectively around complex projects.”

Generate Standout Presentations in Adobe Acrobat, powered by Adobe Express

The Generate presentation feature in Acrobat leverage PDF Spaces — an AI-powered knowledge hub that lets people uncover actionable insights from files and links — together with AI Assistant and the quick and easy content creation capabilities of Adobe Express to enable everyone to transform documents into presentations in minutes. For example, a sales professional can ask AI to pull the most compelling information from a collection of different PDFs, decks and web pages and create an editable outline and presentation from their documents. A finance team can collaborate on a winning end-of-quarter report without having to turn to their colleagues in the creative department to drop what they’re doing to design the visuals. A professor can turn the lecture they’ve written out into a full visual experience that captures their students’ attention.

The new feature taps into the full range of intuitive tools, AI and massive library of assets in Express to make creating presentations fast and easy for everyone. Express surfaces professional slide designs to choose from and generates a draft deck that’s fully editable, in seconds. It’s simple to reorder and animate slides, rewrite copy with AI, fine tune images, change fonts, invite others to collaborate and apply a brand kit for a consistent, polished look. The Generate presentation feature is also available directly in Express.

Edit PDFs with Chat

New, chat-based AI in Acrobat provides a smarter, faster way to complete essential PDF tasks with simple, natural-language prompts. Remove pages, text, comments and images, add e-signatures and passwords, and more by simply asking AI. An enhanced Help Panel also offers clear, step-by-step instructions and troubleshooting support via chat.

Make Knowledge More Accessible with Engaging, Personal Podcasts

With the Generate podcast feature, simply pull documents or weblinks into a PDF Space in Acrobat and ask AI to summarize the information into an engaging audio file to get up to speed quickly or digest complex information more effectively from anywhere. For example, a market analyst can bring multiple research reports into a PDF Space and summarize them in a podcast. Instead of having to pore over the reports at a desk, they can listen to a personal podcast while commuting, walking the dog or working out.

Collaborate Better Together in Acrobat

New enhanced collaboration features in Acrobat PDF Spaces now make it possible to invite others to add files, leave notes or gather comments on projects, helping accelerate understanding and ensuring every project drives fast, clear decisions.

AI Momentum and Impact in Acrobat

A growing number of people are choosing to “do that with Acrobat,” transforming how they create, collaborate and work with AI. Over the last year, AI use across Acrobat saw a 4X increase. A recent Forrester TEI study found Acrobat’s agentic-powered AI Assistant increases efficiencies for document summarization and analysis by 45%.

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