There are many companies that publish PDF documents with their products, many academic studies, manuals for the use of appliances… PDFs are ubiquitous, and have many advantages: they ensure that the format is the same for all readers and prevent anyone from editing the content.
The problem is that mobile phones are not very friendly with the format, so zooming with fingers has become common every time we see a document of this type on the Internet.
Now Adobe, owner of the format, presents a solution that can help us with the issue.
This is a new AI-powered feature in Adobe Reader that will make PDF files much more readable and responsive on Android and iOS devices.
It’s the Liquid Mode feature, which leverages Adobe’s artificial intelligence to make PDF files fit to your screen without having to pinch and zoom constantly, as you can see in this video:
When we open a PDF with the Adobe reader, Sensei, the Adobe AI, will scan the file and identify parts such as headers, paragraphs, images and tables, all to reformat the PDF and make it compatible for mobiles.
The result will be composed of sections that can collapse and expand, and text with search capability for fast navigation. Users can even adapt the font size and spacing between words, characters and lines to suit their specific reading preferences.
At the moment the function is still in its early stages, so it will not work on all PDFs. Sensei will learn as he reads PDFs around the world, so over time he will become more ready to open more types of documents.
For now, Liquid Mode is available exclusively for mobile devices, but the company plans to expand it to the desktop in the future.
