100 Patents: Brian Price on innovating at Adobe Research 

Every day, Adobe researchers push the boundaries of technology—a process that’s second nature to Principal Scientist Brian Price. Price has now contributed to his 100th patent at Adobe. We talked with him about his work.

TokenTrace at CVPR 2026: Tracing Creative Influence in Generative AI 

TokenTrace embeds lightweight watermarks into training tokens associated with visual concepts. When the model later generates an image, TokenTrace can recover traces of these watermarked signals, allowing researchers to identify which concepts most strongly contributed to the output. 

Helping people create accessible PDFs and tap into the intelligence of their documents

From creating accessible tools for the visually impaired to developing AI for document intelligence, Alexa Siu's work is transforming how people interact with information. Her work has been recognized with a Tech Excellence Award from Adobe, and the AI Assistant for Acrobat made TIME’s 2024 best inventions.

How Adobe Research is helping unlock the intelligence inside trillions of PDFs

Adobe researchers are using generative AI and machine learning to help users unlock intelligence inside trillions of PDFs. The new AI Assistant for Reader and Acrobat can answer a user's question about information in a PDF, generate summaries and insights, and format its findings for emails and more!

Research trends: Turning static documents into tailored experiences for each reader

Nanda Kambhatla, Head of Adobe Research in India, talked to us about the ways documents will someday come to life for each individual reader—from text that transforms into a video right when you need it, to AI that allows a document to dive deeper into the areas that interest you.

Research trends: Reinventing the human-document relationship

Tong Sun, Document Intelligence Lab Director, is tapping into artificial intelligence and machine learning to unlock the hidden value of documents. She talked to us about how documents—one of the oldest human technologies—are evolving along with the new ways we consume and share information.

Readability Research: This New Field Can Help Us All Read Better

Each person reads differently, and what could help one person read digital text better may not help another. That’s the issue at the heart of Adobe’s Readability Initiative—a partnership of Adobe Research, Adobe engineering, product management, corporate social responsibility, and education teams, as well as external collaborators.

Researcher Spotlight: Rajiv Jain on Finding the Intelligence Buried Inside Documents

From analyzing national intelligence data to advancing the latest AI models, Rajiv Jain has made headway into our complicated relationship with documents. We asked him a few questions to learn more about his career.

Adobe Research Previews Experimental Technologies at Summit 2020

This year, Adobe shifted the annual Summit to an all-digital experience released on March 31. In the virtual Adobe Sneaks session, Steve Hammond, senior director for Experience Cloud, introduced 7 innovative demos. Two of those included sneaks were from Adobe Research. We showcased our cutting-edge technologies for marketers and digital...