人工智能在文档处理中的应用现状：使用量激增371%，AI正在改变我们的工作方式

Key Insights: AI use in Acrobat workflows has surged371% year-over-year*,signaling exponential interest and growth. Financial documents (+347%)are growing faster thanany other document type, followed by legal (+281%) andhuman resources (+261%)**. increased AI use than just a year ago whilenearly half (47%) report using it ‘muchmore.’ And as AI evolves, it’s redefining howindividual roles and entire industries manage key obligations and timelines are extractedin seconds without wading through pagesof legalese. Or a multinational financialdocument, where translation for several 1 in 5 use it daily,with Directors and VPs drivingadoption growth. week and15% free a full workday (8+ hours),pointing to major productivity boosts. aggregated Acrobat data with insights froma companion survey of more than400professionalsto explore shifting documentbehavior and reveal how AI use is rapidly AI is increasingly being used to edit documents,withtranslation requests soaring +300%**. Acrobat users are harnessing AI featureswithin a growing number of the more than320 billion PDFsthat were opened orcreated in the last 12 months alone and morethaneight billion documentsthat were compatibilityremain, yet use of unapproved tools, orshadow AI, is widespread, led by tech professionals. Even as organizationsevaluate AI policies,use is more prevalentand widespread Given AI’s rapid growth, it’s no surprise that adoptionwithin within Acrobat workflows has skyrocketed371% YoY. As of November 2025, AI tools were usedfive times more often than just 12 months earlier.In fact,more than half (55%) of professionalsnow use AI weeklyin documents and1 in 5 use itdaily, driven by the most senior leaders.Two-thirds But adoption isn’t without apprehension.Nearlyhalf of professionals (45%) cite security orprivacy concerns as a key barrierto deeperAI use, followed closely bymistrust in outputs restrictive policies on AI use. Unsurprisingly,these restrictions only appear to be encouragingoppositional behavior from workers.Use of toolsunapproved by businesses, or shadow AI, is 74%83% Speed sells as higherAI adoption linkedwith major timesavings, an entire dayeach week for some Speed is AI’s Top Document BenefitAI delivers its greatest value by accelerating document workflows. documents.More than half (57%) cite fasterworkflowsas AI’s most significant outcome,followed by reduced manual workload (47%) and, This speed, automation, accuracy, and othergains translate into actual time back into workers’calendars.Nearly half (48%)save four-plus hoursweekly, while 15% reclaim eight or more—a full Higher AI Adoption Correlates with Greater Time Savings And the correlation is clear: as AI use increases, sodoes time saved.Daily AI users are eight timesmore likely to save eight-plus hours perweek than occasional users.The same goesfor heavy document volumes: those who handle100-plus documents monthly are14 times more No longer just aretrieval engine, AIincreasingly usedto summarize and Speed is AI’s Top Document BenefitAI delivers its greatest value by accelerating document workflows. fall into three categories:information retrieval(38%)—locating or explaining; interpretation(22%)—synthesizing or summarizing; and Coincidentally, this mirrors how workers leverageAI most in their workflows.A majority (57%)summarize information, whilenearly half (48%)rely on AI as an editorial assistantto quicklyreview or rewrite documents.Text transformation How Professionals Use AI in DocumentsThe most common ways professionals apply AI to document work. documents. In what could potentially signal the slowdemise of legacy features like Control/Command+F,nearly half (49%) now use AI as a faster, moreefficient search tool. This trend is driven by individualcontributors, who outpace Directors/VPs in using AI Over the last 8 months. AI use surges infinancial, legal, andhuman resourcedocuments, butprompt patterns AI Use Varies by Function and Document TaskFunctions gravitate toward AI tasks that match how they work with documents — from writing and interpretation to translation and summarization. exploded since early 2025 as more Acrobat userstackle dense, technical content, particularly in financial(347%), legal (281%), and human resource (261%)documents. Administrative (233%) and marketing type. In financial documents (i.e., statements,budgets), for example, workers embrace more translation or technical prompts like calculations,while interpretation prompts, such as finding orsummarizing information, are prominent in marketing However, across use cases, themajority ofprofessionals (57%)report a need for regular AIsupport with the ‘last mile’ of document workflows:design and presentation. Common requests include Takeaway:AI isn’t just unlocking document workflows, but unleashing them The pace of AI adoption in documents isn’t a fleeting trend; it’s a generational shift in how workgets done—whether you’re in high school or high finance. As AI use ac