Contracts are packed with sneaky clauses and legal jargon that can trip you up. Instead of spending hours dissecting every sentence, let Adobe Acrobat’s AI do the work. It reads, summarizes, and flags key details in contracts—saving you time and potential headaches.
Acrobat Introduces Contract Reading AI Features
Adobe is adding a new feature to Acrobat: contract intelligence capabilities. It’s integrated into Acrobat’s AI Assistant to help its users read, understand, and summarize legalese within contracts, tax forms, and legal agreements.
Not only does this tool work hand-in-hand with Acrobat’s AI Assistant feature for summarizing documents, but it can also help you make informed decisions regarding job contracts or leases before you sign on the dotted line.
Acrobat’s AI contract reader simplifies legal jargon so the average person can understand it and make an informed decision before agreeing to contracts. It summarizes terminology, which is most beneficial for multi-page documents of wordy, high-brow language. It can be helpful in professional settings and your personal life when it matters.
Adobe’s AI Assistant and intelligent contract capabilities are governed by data security protocols and none of your content is ever used for data training.
What Are Contract AI’s Major Features?
Contract AI could change how you interact with contracts and legal documents, whether scanned from paper or digitally acquired. Adobe Acrobat is one of the most common tools for opening PDFs, so having a tool to summarize contracts right there is a boon.
Spot the Difference
If your job contract or property lease has been updated, it can be hard to spot any differences in language when there’s so much to read. Some seemingly minor nuances in language can make large differences between what you previously signed for and what you now sign for in the updated contract.
The new AI features can compare old and new contracts or documents side-by-side, pointing out new or updated language for you to quickly learn the differences. Small updates are easily missed by human eyes.
Simplify Complex Language
Legal documents and contracts often use complex language—known as legalese—which the average consumer often finds difficult to decipher.
This complex language gives businesses and contract writers the upper hand since most people sign without truly understanding the terminologies. Adobe Acrobat can simplify and humanize this language so anyone can understand it.
Beware that simplified language may sometimes change the exact meaning of the official terminology—just like translating from one language to another.
Summarize Long Documents
Alongside Acrobat AI Assistant, Contract AI works to summarize long legal documents. Not only does the AI tool summarize any document into bite-sized chunks you can understand, but Acrobat AI Assistant also cites where in the document that information can be found.
The citation aspect is important for your peace of mind. It lets you know that the information provided in its summary comes from your document and that they weren’t AI hallucinations. The citation highlights the text, giving you the page and paragraph so you can easily reference it at any later point.
Locate Individual Policy Sections
Using the AI Assistant voice tool or the text prompt, you can ask Acrobat to locate, answer questions about, or summarize any particular policy section in your documents.
This is helpful if you have any discrepancies with your contract or specific wording and especially helpful when you need to access a part of the contract under a time constraint.
You can ask questions like “When did this contract begin?” or “Who is responsible for garbage disposal?” As long as the answer is written in your contract somewhere, Acrobat AI Assistant’s intelligence will supply you with the answer, along with the citation for you to find the section within your document.
Do your due diligence when signing contracts. Do not blindly trust AI summaries or overviews without fact-checking first; you should always read through a contract yourself. You are still responsible for what you sign.
How Much Do Contract Intelligence Capabilities Cost?
The intelligent contract reader is an Acrobat AI Assistant feature. This means it forms part of the optional extra purchased with Acrobat AI Assistant, and it isn’t inherently a tool in standard versions of Adobe Acrobat.
AI Assistant is available as an add-on subscription to any Acrobat user, regardless if you use the free Acrobat Reader, the paid subscription of Adobe Acrobat Pro or access to Acrobat from the browser. The add-on can be purchased by anyone using Acrobat from a desktop—AI Assistant’s mobile version is in beta mode, but it will be available publicly for mobile users in the future.
The AI Assistant add-on subscription costs $4.99 per month. This includes built-in intelligent contract capabilities, allowing you to skim-read, summarize, and understand long documents and contracts, including simplifying confusing legalese language.
Contract intelligence capabilities is a welcome addition to an already sought-after tool in Acrobat. Millions of everyday people, business owners, and SMB owners around the world use Acrobat daily for document management. A smart tool to help summarize, understand, and compare legal documents and contracts is a valuable addition to the toolbox.
