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Adobe has introduced new AI-powered, chat-based features on its platforms such as Adobe Express and Acrobat.
The creative software giant on Wednesday, January 21, announced a new feature in Adobe Express that lets users easily transform documents into presentation slides. It can also be used to create decks from over 500K professional templates and generate custom images.
Adobe has also rolled out new AI chat tools for Acrobat users which allows them to edit PDFs by just describing what they want. Additionally, users can also use AI to generate a podcast-style audio overview of their documents, transcripts, and notes on Acrobat. New features in PDF Spaces further enables users to invite others to add files, leave notes, or gather comments, the company said.
While Adobe Express is an all–in-one design, photo, and video editing platform, Acrobat lets users edit, organise, sign, redact, compare, and protect documents. Since the past year, AI usage across Acrobat has increased four times, with the application’s AI agent improving efficiency in document summarisation and analysis by 45 per cent, according to a Forrester TEI study cited by Adobe in its press note. The monthly active users of both Acrobat and Adobe Express has grown 20 per cent year-over-year.
The ‘Edit PDFs with Chat’ feature. (Image: Adobe)
The new chat-based features are aimed at making learning, collaborating, and creating content faster and easier for students as well as consumers, the company said. Adobe has been gradually upgrading its entire suite of products and tools with generative AI. The Photoshop maker has sought to define its edge in the AI race by developing AI models and tools that are trained on commercially safe, licensed data.
The ‘Generate presentation’ feature. (Image: Adobe
In December 2025, Adobe and OpenAI announced the launch of Photoshop, Adobe Express, and Acrobat within ChatGPT, allowing users to prompt the AI chatbot to edit photos, generate custom designs, and organise documents directly via the natively available apps.
In terms of security, Adobe reiterated that user data is not used to train its AI models. “Acrobat AI Assistant and PDF Spaces only look at the documents you tell it to. Customers have controls and discretion to enable and disable storing chat history and documents in the cloud,” the company said, adding that Acrobat also offers enterprise controls to manage who has AI access within an organisation.
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58% Indian creators use AI for ideation: Adobe report
Last week, Adobe shared key findings from its first-ever Creators’ Toolkit Report, which offered a glimpse into how content creators are integrating creative generative AI and mobile tools in their workflows. These findings were based on a survey of over 16,000 creators across the US, the UK, France, Germany, South Korea, Japan, India, and Australia.
The report found that the top uses of creative generative AI by Indian creators are: editing, upscaling, and enhancement (77 per cent); generating new assets like images and video (75 per cent), and ideation and brainstorming (58 per cent).
Additionally, it said that Indian creators are also using AI agents for automating repetitive tasks (66 per cent), brainstorming content ideas (63 per cent), and surfacing content performance insights (57 per cent).
While 95 per cent of creators said that AI has helped grow their follower count, they also identified key barriers to adoption of creative generative AI such as high cost (38 per cent), unreliable output quality (28 per cent), and uncertainty about how the AI model was trained (30 per cent).
