Acrobat AI Assistant can now compare documents with current web sources

What is changing?

Adobe announced on October 7 that it added optional web search to Acrobat AI Assistant. The assistant treats the open document as the primary source; when current context is needed, users can enable web search and bring outside information into the same conversation. Answers drawn from documents and the web are shown with separate, clickable citations.

Adobe’s examples include converting a euro amount in a contract at the current exchange rate, checking proposal assumptions against newer market data, and comparing loan terms with current rates. Teams using PDF Spaces can also query findings across several files alongside current comparable sales or industry data. Web search can be turned off at any time, and users can instruct the assistant to use documents only.

Adobe says documents remain inside Acrobat, are not sent to the search provider, and customer content is not used to train its AI models. For production work, the update can make it easier to check stale figures in reports and proposals without leaving the review flow. Web results should still be verified by opening the cited links.