Design Arena has launched PDF Arena, a new evaluation added to its Office Suite alongside its existing Slides and Spreadsheets evals, aimed at measuring how well AI handles PDF-based work.
Design Arena · PDF Arena launch
Design Arena adds a PDF eval to its Office Suite
PDF Arena joins the Slides and Spreadsheets evals to measure how well AI handles PDF-based work, a format that mixes text, tables, charts and scanned images in ways clean-text tests often miss.
400B+
PDFs opened by people each year
200M+
PDFs sent through Adobe alone
Yearly PDF counts, drawn to scale
The two figures measure different activity (opening vs. sending), so they are not a direct ratio. At this scale the Adobe column is roughly 0.05% of the opened-PDF column.
200M
Sent via Adobe alone
Each orange block represents 50 billion PDFs. The blue column is drawn at a 2px minimum so it stays visible.
Why it matters
PDFs are a primary way reports and research reach people.
Mixed text, tables, charts and scans are hard for AI systems.
A PDF-focused eval can expose weaknesses that clean-text tests miss.
What is still unclear
The usage figures are company-reported and not independently verified.
Scoring method and models tested have not been detailed.
How results compare across the Slides, Spreadsheets and PDF evals is unknown.
What determines the eval's weight
PDF Arena's value depends on publicly available methodology and results.
Methodology
How PDF tasks are scored
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