Understand complex PDFs faster with Adobe Acrobat

The demands and pace of modern business can mean that there’s less time than you’d like to work through dense materials and produce insights. It’s not unusual to be given dense, long PDF documents from which you need to create a report or presentation, with the expectation being that you fully understand the content. It can all feel overwhelming. How do you deliver concise and informed insights if there aren’t enough hours in the day to fully understand all the nuances?

Then there’s the problem of how you present this information to colleagues or clients. You may have an excellent report, full of detail, but the layout and aesthetic is just a bit dull. How can you make it interesting without spending more time updating your design skills?

Well, Adobe Acrobat can help, as its AI-tools can quickly distill long documents into streamlined, professional content that not only helps you understand the details, but allows you to confidently share them with others.

Why Adobe Acrobat’s interactive reports could be your secret weapon

It’s not unusual for business professionals to work with detailed, complex PDFs that contains a wealth of information. But, just because they spend a lot of time with the documents, this doesn’t automatically convert to a deep understanding of the data. It could be that the document is written in a dry, academic fashion that makes it hard to stay focussed, or structured in a way that requires constant cross-referencing where the point can get lost. Most likely though is that you’re working under a tight deadline and need to skim through the material quickly to have a chance of finishing in time. This can leave you unsure of how well you’ve comprehended the details, which can translate into difficulties explaining the essential points.

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With the ability to generate interactive reports in Adobe Acrobat, you can take those tome-like PDFs and convert them into visual reports that highlight the important data in a way that makes them much easier to understand. Say you have a financial report that covers a range of aspects of your business, Adobe Acrobat can quickly transform the sea of figures and text into a report with charts and easily digestible key points that make the information more accessible.

It’s interactive too, so you can ask the AI Assistant questions about the content as well as tell it how you would like the data formatted and structured. The same is true for market research documents, in-company policies, sales documents and all manner of other business reports.

For those who prefer an audio approach, Adobe Acrobat also has the ability to turn documents into podcasts, complete with AI-hosts that cover the data in a conversational manner.

Working with these tools, you can quickly get a deeper comprehension of the material and then use the insights to confidently relay them to your colleagues and clients. It means you can read less but know more.

If you have multiple documents, then they can be analyzed in Adobe Acrobat’s PDF Spaces, where all of the files can be used to generate insights by the AI Assistant. You can also share the report you’ve generated to see how the recipients engage with the insights.

Quickly make documents look professional with the Adobe Acrobat Stylize tool

Should you have a document that you’ve already prepared, but don’t feel that it looks as professional as you’d like, then the Stylize feature in Adobe Acrobat can instantly transform it into a polished version you’re proud to put your name against.

Simply upload the document (say a resume, report, invoice, or newsletter) then select the Stylize option. You’ll be able to choose from thousands of professionally designed feature templates that will make your rather ordinary file look far more impressive. All of your content remains intact, but Adobe Acrobat will format it so that it looks its best in just a few clicks. You can still edit the contents of course, and change from one template to another until you find the style that suits your preference. You can also add in brand assets to tailor the end results to your company or the client with whom you’re working.

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Stylize is a simple, easy-to-use tool that adds that extra level of professionalism to your documents, perfect for those who don’t have the capacity to spend time working on their design skills but know what a good document should look like.

Try Adobe Acrobat for free today

You can test drive all the features of Adobe Acrobat with a 7-day free trial, so you can see how interactive reports and the Stylize feature could become a powerful tool in your professional life.

After that, it’s only $24.99 p/m, which also entitles you to the full range of other Adobe Acrobat tools, including advanced PDF editing, conversion and creation, document workflow management tools, as well as the AI capabilities that can help boost your productivity. You don’t have to work harder to work smarter, you just need the right tools.