What’s new in Adobe Document Cloud — July 2024
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We are excited to share with you this quarter’s update with details about new features and feature enhancements that will make your experience more productive, efficient, and secure. This quarter we released Acrobat AI Assistant. Check out the video overview here. We also released new eSignature features in Acrobat Sign, and new and updated Acrobat Services APIs. Read on for more details.
Adobe Acrobat
NEW: Acrobat AI Assistant
Businesses can use the generative AI features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader to quickly get quality insights and summaries from lengthy, complex documents and get sources cited across multiple documents. AI Assistant can answer questions, retrieve and organize information, and compose responses in various styles. The AI-powered features in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader support multiple documents and multiple document types, including PDFs, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, and RTF files. AI Assistant only sources information from the documents you tell it to, so that you are in control and your documents are protected. With AI Assistant, you can accelerate time to knowledge, turn your documents into action and save hours of time to focus on what matters.
Increase productivity by automatically formatting content as lists, tables and more, and copying it into your email, report, or other output documents.
Easily validate and cross-reference AI Assistant responses through attributions.
Insights across multiple documents
Increase the scope of your analysis by adding additional files in Acrobat AI Assistant.
AI Assistant mobile experience
Easily get insights from your documents when you are on the move with AI Assistant in the Adobe Acrobat Reader mobile app. The app supports voice capture when you don’t have a free hand to type your question. Similar to Acrobat AI Assistant on desktop and web, you can leverage attributions to verify the response or dig deeper into the details, and you can easily copy the response into an email, message, or document.
Availability:
Acrobat AI Assistant is available on desktop, web, and mobile. Currently, it is available in English only. Additional languages are coming shortly.
More Information:
Acrobat AI Assistant for business
AI Assistant in Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft Teams
Use AI Assistant directly withing Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft Teams.
Get meeting summaries and insights with AI Assistant
Generate meeting summaries, identify hot topics, and identify action items from your transcripts with AI Assistant in Acrobat for Microsoft Teams. Even if you missed the meeting, you can use AI Assistant to ask questions and understand how the conversation went. Notifications are sent automatically via the Adobe Acrobat bot in Microsoft Teams chat after the meeting ends.
Choose a suggested prompt in the chat bot to start the Acrobat AI Assistant conversation with the transcript summary. Select Send Summary adds the summary to the meeting chat.
Availability:
Available on desktop and web. Requires Microsoft® Teams desktop app or Microsoft® Teams in supported web browsers.
More Information:
Adobe Acrobat for Microsoft Teams
Insert and edit images in Acrobat with Adobe Express Integration
Acrobat is integrated with Adobe Express, the all-in-one design, photo, and video tool that makes content creation easy. Easily add an AI-generated image by selecting the new “Generate image” feature that brings up Adobe Express and type a description.
Select one of the image choices or try another prompt.
Image is automatically inserted in the document back in Acrobat where it can be moved and resized and optionally edited back in Adobe Express.
Availability:
Coming soon to enterprise customers.
More Information:
Create standout documents with Adobe Express integrated into Acrobat
UPDATED: Request eSignatures modern experience
We have introduced a new, more intuitive product experience. Select request e-signatures from the menu on the left to bring up Adobe Acrobat Sign.
Enter recipient(s) by just entering their email addresses. The document from Adobe Acrobat will be sent for signature using Adobe Acrobat Sign.
Availability:
Available for existing Acrobat customers.
More Information:
Request E-signatures in Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat Sign
NEW: SMS Link Option for eSignature Recipients
The SMS link notification functionality enables sending agreement URLs straight to a recipient's mobile phone, bypassing the need for email access. This proves beneficial when immediate action is required to present a document that needs to be signed.
By activating the SMS link feature for a signer, they will receive all related links — such as sign, reminder, and completed agreement notifications — directly to their specified mobile number. These SMS notifications can be sent alongside or as an alternative to traditional email notifications.
Availability:
SMS link notification is available for enterprise license plans only.
More Information:
Enable sending agreement URLs to the recipient's phone
NEW: Block Signers Within a Specific Geography
The Block signers from signing within a particular geography setting allows an account to fully block recipient activity in a specified geolocation based on the IP address of the connecting recipient. The IP Address is collected when the recipient uses the Review and sign button on their email notification.
Availability:
The option to block recipients by their geolocation is available for business and enterprise license plans.
More Information:
Block signers within a specific geography
NEW: Automate Custom Send Workflows
Automatic Workflow Detection enables admins to manage their agreement versions at the file level by placing a unique string of characters on the first page of their PDF. This unique string is linked to a Custom Workflow in Acrobat Sign, pairing the uploaded document with the workflow when it's uploaded. As a result, organizations using standard templates for custom documents can automate their agreement setup and apply form fields through these templates, greatly cutting down the time needed for senders to prepare their specific agreements.
Insert a unique string in the document that you want sent for signature using Adobe Acrobat Sign custom workflows.
A new option, match text, will allow the workflow to automatically be invoked when a pdf containing the matching text is sent for signature from “Start from Library”.
Availability:
The option to automate custom send workflows is available for enterprise license plans.
More Information:
Automate custom send workflows
Adobe Acrobat Services
UPDATE: Watermark API
This API automates adding watermarks to PDF files programmatically. The API takes a document to be watermarked and a PDF that contains the watermark and outputs the watermarked document. Whether it’s adding a watermark to PDFs as part of a document generation process or adding watermarks to many PDFs in bulk, this new API can eliminate manual processing time and improve security.
Availability:
Available for Adobe Acrobat Services customers.
More Information:
Watermark API Documentation