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Aspectful
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February 20, 2024
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AI Assistant Not Visible on Acrobat Desktop

  • February 20, 2024
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Hello, Community!

 

With the new release of the AI assistant feature,  I do not seem to have access to the feature on the dekstop version of Acrobat, considering I'm a creative cloud user. The feature however does appear on my laptop and on the web version (see video). I'm not sure if I'm missing a step in the activation process or if this is a known issue with a workaround.

 

Here are the details:

- I am using the latest version of Acrobat Desktop.
- My operating system is windows 10 pro, and it's up to date.
- I've checked the application settings, but there doesn't seem to be an option to enable the AI assistant.
- I've also tried reinstalling Acrobat Desktop, but the issue persists.

Has anyone else faced this problem? If so, how did you resolve it? Are there specific settings or updates required to enable the AI assistant feature on Acrobat Desktop? Any guidance or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you in advance for your help and support!

 

Correct answer fmgtech9562127777

I know I'm late to the party, but I was having the same issue. I fixed by enabling the "new Acrobat".  Go to View and click "Enable new Acrobat" and restart app. Once back, AI Assistant was available in Tools.

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fmgtech9562127777
fmgtech9562127777Correct answer
Participating Frequently
September 15, 2025

I know I'm late to the party, but I was having the same issue. I fixed by enabling the "new Acrobat".  Go to View and click "Enable new Acrobat" and restart app. Once back, AI Assistant was available in Tools.

fmgtech9562127777
Participating Frequently
September 15, 2025

DOH! I forgot I had already posted this ove a year ago! Sorry for double posting.

fmgtech9562127777
Participating Frequently
August 22, 2024

For me the problem wasnt the language settings since I was already at English. I had clicked on the "Disable new Acrobat" option in the Menu tab. After I reverted back to the new Acrobat by clicking on Menu-"Enable new Acrobat", then I was able to locate the AI Assistant in the "See all tools" link. Afterwards, and not related to my inital problem of not finding the AI Assistant, I aslo checked "Enable Generative AI feature in Acrobat" in Menu-Preferences.

JR Boulay
Community Expert
February 21, 2024

You must use an English version of Acrobat 23.008.20533 (Pro or Standard, not yet available in Reader) and you must use the new UI.

You can see if it's enabled in Preferences:

 

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Aspectful
AspectfulAuthor
New Participant
February 21, 2024

Thank you for your response! 

 

However, I do not have that feature in the preferences on my Acrobat pro desktop version (see attched screenshot).

 

 

Inspiring
February 22, 2024

This product I know is in beta but I tried to explore this today and this is what I got (see attached image). 

Under what conditions will this product work under? The file I used was .pdf, lol.