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Last updated on
Aug 31, 2026
Learn how to replace, rewrite, reformat, restructure, and redact text in your PDF using natural language with the AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat.
Before you begin
Editing text with chat is available to paid Acrobat users on desktop and web, with the app language set to English. Check the supported tools and actions to confirm what is available on your plan.
When working with PDFs in Acrobat, the AI Assistant understands your document structure and content, so you can describe how you want to change your text in plain language, and it performs the action for you. Instead of finding the text and editing it manually, you describe the change, and the AI Assistant identifies the matching text by meaning, in single or multiple instances, shows you a preview, and confirms with you before the update.
You can ask the AI Assistant to perform the following actions:
- Rewrite text: Rephrase a passage for tone, length, or clarity, one section at a time.
- Replace text: Swap text for wording across multiple instances you provide, by exact match or by meaning.
- Reformat text: Change how text looks, such as font style, size, and color, or highlight it.
- Restructure text: Change how text is organized, such as turning a paragraph into a bulleted list, one section at a time.
- Redact text: Permanently remove or mask sensitive information, such as names,Social Security numbers, or account numbers. Works on a single occurrence or across multiple instances.
Select AI Assistant in the top bar to open the chat panel.
In the chat field, describe the change in natural language. For example:
- To replace: Replace all instances of draft with final or change all dates to DD-MM-YYYY.
- To rewrite: Make the executive summary more concise or rewrite the introduction in a more formal tone.
- To redact: Remove all instances that mention Social Security numbers in this document.
- To restructure: Convert the recommendations into bullet points or combine the list into a single paragraph.
- To reformat: Make all headings in this document blue.
Tip
You can ask the AI Assistant to make more than one text change in a single request. For example, ask it to replace product names with Aurora and company names with Brightfield simultaneously. If a change does not run as expected, add more detail to your prompt, such as section names, or page numbers.
Select Submit.
Review the highlighted text and the count of matches that AI Assistant found in the chat panel.
Select Replace or Accept based on your request to apply the change or select Skip to move to the next instance.
Note
To undo the action performed by the AI Assistant, select Undo from the top bar. If a change does not run as expected, add more detail to your prompt, such as specific wording, section names, or page numbers. If a tool does not support chat editing, the AI Assistant provides step-by-step guidance instead. If the problem persists, check common issues and their fixes.
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