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How to summarise a PDF file using AI.
Learn how to effortlessly summarise lengthy documents with AI and convert complex PDFs into concise, clear summaries within seconds.
Published by Adobe Acrobat India on 26 March 2025
Our AI Assistant and generative summary feature is a great way to go through long documents. You can get an overview of any article, reducing your reading time significantly.
Whether you are working on extensive reports, academic documents, or searching for specific information, reading every word in a document can be exhausting.
By importing your documents into an Al Assistant, you can generate a summary of the key points instantly.
How does a PDF summariser work?
Acrobat PDF summariser with AI capabilities utilises artificial intelligence to thoroughly read any document before summarising it. Here's how you can use it:
- Convert your document to PDF: Before summarising your document, whether it's a Word file, PowerPoint presentation, or any other format, convert it into a PDF. Use Adobe Acrobat Convert to PDF tool to convert your document to PDF.
- Upload the PDF: Once your document is in PDF, upload it to the Acrobat and utilise the features of the Al Assistant to generate It's summary.
- AI analysis: The summariser will then scan the entire document, identifying key points, the main theme, and essential details.
- Summarise: After analysis, the tool will create a concise summary capturing the core information, saving you the time and effort of reading through the entire document.
Build case studies using an AI summariser for PDFs.
An AI Assistant comes in handy for generating summaries of case studies, especially when going through large volumes of data to extract meaningful insights. Here's how different users can benefit from this feature:
- Students: OCR technology ensures you can scan handwritten notes and convert them into digital summaries, ensuring no valuable information is missed. Using an AI Assistant to summarise, students can instantly turn these lengthy PDF documents into concise notes. This is especially helpful during revision, allowing students to focus on key points without wading through pages of text.
- Business owners: For Indian business owners, summarising lengthy reports or case studies can become much more manageable with this tool. It enables you to concentrate on strategic decision-making instead of becoming overwhelmed by endless data.
- Researchers: Our AI Assistant with summarising features can help researchers by breaking down complex papers into easy-to-understand summaries and help identify the key studies relevant to their work.
- Healthcare professionals: Doctors today handle a vast amount of patient records, research papers, and administrative documents which can be streamlined into short summaries for prompt patient care.
By quickly turning large document content into brief summaries, the Acrobat AI PDF tool can compile information and build comprehensive, data-driven case studies.
How to summarise a PDF file using AI in 3 easy steps.
- Upload your PDF: Go to Adobe Acrobat, open your PDF document.
- Allow the AI to analyse the content. Select the 'Generative Summary' icon in the navigation panel, or go to All Tools > Generative Summary.
- Chat with PDF: After generating the summary, use the 'Ask a Question' feature to delve deeper into specific sections of the document.
Applications of the Acrobat GenAI PDF tool.
An AI Assistant to generate summaries can be applied across industries and prove to be incredibly useful:
- School students: Summarise study materials and research papers quickly.
- Business: Extract key information from the sales reports.
- Teachers: Create a study guide for your students.
- Legal: Highlight important sections in clauses.
- Technical: Simplify user manuals into easy summaries.
Tips for making the most out of an AI PDF tool for summaries.
Follow these tips to make the most of your AI Assistant:
- Proper formatting: To maintain accuracy, ensure that your document is well-formatted before uploading it.
- Interactive features: Utilise all available features, such as asking follow-up questions, to gain deeper insights from the summary.
- Regular updates: To benefit from improvements and new features, keep your summarising software updated.
This way, you can leverage an AI Assistant to its full potential and improve document management efficiency by generating a summary of it.