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Last updated on
Sep 9, 2026
Learn more about how Acrobat AI Assistant helps you edit PDFs using chat, supported tools, actions, and availability.
Edit PDFs with AI chat
Replace, rewrite, restructure, redact, format, or highlight text — just by chatting with AI Assistant.
In Acrobat, you can perform PDF tasks and text edits using AI Assistant by typing what you want in your natural language. The AI Assistant identifies your intent, selects the appropriate tool or tools, and executes them, without you needing to navigate menus or find features manually. Key capabilities include:
- Multi-tool workflows: AI Assistant performs multiple actions in a single request, such as "Compress this file and share it with my team" or Add a watermark on pages with pricing information."
- Content and structure awareness: AI Assistant understands your document's content and structure to perform actions. You can refer to specific sections, topics, or information without needing exact page numbers, such as "move the pricing section before the case studies."
- Text editing: AI Assistant can find and edit text in your PDF based on its meaning or appearance. You can ask the AI Assistant to replace, rewrite, reformat, restructure, or redact text, such as "Replace all client names with Brightfield" or "Highlight all dates in yellow," and the AI Assistant finds the matching text, makes the change, shows a preview, and confirms with you before the change is applied.
When an action is irreversible, needs more information, or when Acrobat wants to confirm it is acting on the right content or pages, it pauses and asks you before proceeding. For example, if you ask, "Move the pages with the pricing information," the AI Assistant will identify those pages and ask for confirmation before making any changes. You can reverse changes applied to the document using the Undo option on the top bar after a supported action is applied.
Note
Requests to edit PDFs through chat do not currently consume generative credits nor count as part of the limited number of AI Assistant requests.
Edit text with chat
When you work with PDFs in Acrobat, the AI Assistant can understand your document's content and structure, so you can describe a text edit you want in your document, and the AI Assistant performs the edit for you. The AI Assistant identifies the matching text based on its meaning or appearance, applies the change, shows a preview, and confirms with you before applying the change across single and multiple instances. You can perform the following text editing actions using chat:
- Edit text: Replace, rewrite, restructure, or delete text.
- Highlight text: Change font style, size, color, family, spacing, and indentation, or find text by color or style.
- Format text: Add, recolor, or remove highlights.
Supported tools
You can edit PDFs with chat using the following tools in Acrobat:
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Action performed |
Available on |
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Find |
Locates a specific word or phrase within the document |
Reader, Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Sends the document to print based on existing settings |
Reader, Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Share |
Distributes the document via link or email to another user |
Reader, Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Add Signature |
Adds a signature to the document |
Reader, Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Create |
Creates a PDF from editable formats like DOCX, XLS, and RTF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Convert |
Converts a PDF to editable formats like DOCX, XLS, and RTF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Delete |
Removes pages, text, comments, or images from a PDF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Export |
Converts PDF files into editable formats like DOCX, XLS, and RTF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Extract |
Separates pages, text, comments, or images from a PDF into another format |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Find & Replace |
Identifies and changes specific words or phrases for one instance or all |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Rotate pages |
Rotates pages in 90-degree increments, clockwise or counterclockwise |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Compress |
Reduces the total file size of a PDF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Password protect |
Adds a password to restrict viewing or editing access to a PDF |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Scan & OCR |
Converts text in a scanned image to searchable and readable text |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Organize |
Rearranges, rotates, or deletes pages in a PDF |
Pro, Studio |
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Header |
Adds consistent text such as a title or date to the top of every page |
Pro, Studio |
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Footer |
Inserts page numbers or other text at the bottom of pages |
Pro, Studio |
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Watermark |
Stamps text or images across pages for branding or security purposes |
Pro, Studio |
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Edit text |
Replace, rewrite, restructure, or delete text by meaning |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Format text |
Change font style, size, color, family, spacing, and indentation |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Highlight text |
Add, recolor, or remove highlights on identified text |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
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Redact text |
Remove sensitive information across single or multiple instances |
Standard, Pro, Studio |
Note
AI Assistant also offers step-by-step guidance for completing tasks with tools that don’t support the chat feature.
Prompt types
AI Assistant supports a range of prompts to perform an action using a single tool, multiple tools, or an action based on document content and structure. Multi-tool and content-aware prompts are available to individual Acrobat Pro and Studio plan users only, and are not yet supported on Teams or Enterprise plans.
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Simple prompts |
Multi-tool prompts |
Content-aware prompts |
Content-aware prompts |
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"Add page numbers to the footer" |
"Remove the last two pages and compress the file" |
"Reorder pages so pricing appears before case studies" |
“Replace all client names with Brightfield” |
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"Compress this file" |
"Compress this file and share it with johndoe@company.com" |
"Add a CONFIDENTIAL watermark on pages with pricing information" |
“Make all headings bold” |
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"Rotate page 4 clockwise" |
"Organize pages and add a header with the document title" |
"Replace all product names with 'Product X' throughout the document" |
“Highlight all dates in yellow” |
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"Add a password to this file" |
"Extract pages 1 to 5 and export as a Word document" |
"Delete all blank pages from the document" |
“Convert the recommendations into bullet points” |
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