Tag Archives: PDF

SAN JOSE, Calif. — August 19, 2025 — Today, Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) launched Acrobat Studio, a transformative home for productivity and creativity that unites Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Express and AI agents to empower people to quickly, easily and intuitively do their best work. Acrobat Studio transforms PDFs into conversational knowledge hubs that enable people to use customizable AI Assistants to unlock …

When it was first released by Adobe in 1993, the PDF was truly transformative technology. The Portable Document Format was a multipurpose container that replicated the appearance and functionality of physical documents. That sounds unimportant, but as adoption spread with Adobe’s introduction of free Acrobat software for reading PDFs a year later, anyone, from the government to your doctor’s office, …

Microsoft is quietly winding down its Lens scanning app for iOS and Android, the company confirmed in a support document. Formerly known as Office Lens, the app lets users convert images into PDFs, PowerPoint slides, and Excel files, handling both handwritten and printed documents with ease. It was simple, reliable, and widely used — but it’s now on the chopping …

Microsoft announced that it will phase out the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices starting in September. Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) can convert images into PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and it is capable of scanning both printed and handwritten text. Currently, the app has been downloaded 50 million times on the Google Play …

After adding Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google is updating AI Mode with four big features across Search Live (video with Google Lens access), Canvas, and more. In addition to text, you will soon be able to upload images and PDF files to AI Mode on the web. The former is already available on mobile, while the latter will let you “ask …