Adobe launches AI assistant that can search and summarize PDFs

David Wadhwani, senior vice president of digital media for Adobe, speaks during the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6 in San Francisco, April 23, 2012.Adobe on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence assistant in its Reader and Acrobat applications that can produce summaries of and answer questions about PDFs and other documents.The AI assistant, currently in beta, is now available on Acrobat, "with features coming to Reader over the coming days and weeks," according to a news release. Adobe plans ...