What sets this AI-focused release apart from other feature updates is the abstraction away from humans writing, editing, and parsing documents and towards the synthetic, and often unreliable, actions of generative AI tools.
“There is now AI in these very specifically human-centered document forms,” Kirschenbaum says. “And to me, that's notable.” Much like the death of handwriting in the age of AI, users’ relationships to documents is being fundamentally altered.
“We were the ones that created the PDF,” Alexander says. “And we really see this as our opportunity to redefine what a PDF is.”
Whether users look back in a few years on the release of Adobe Acrobat Studio and see it as an essential redefinition of the software, like transparency was, or just a passing fad that gets ignored among the myriad of other PDF features, the release marks an important moment in time.
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