Microsoft upgrades Edge with 3 AI features - including a big one for PDFs

Screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNET Microsoft is sprucing up Edge with a few new features to help you better manage and use the browser, especially in the workplace. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025 on Monday are three new skills aimed at individual users and IT administrators. PDF translation First up is PDF translation. As Microsoft points out, sometimes you may need to translate directions for a new device or train an internal team on global policies based on documents in a different language. Edge is already capable of translating text in a PDF file. But the process is clumsy as you have to manually select the text that you want translated. That's hardly an ideal method for translating an entire file. Coming in June and now available for the Edge Canary build is a more powerful and effective translation skill that can handle whole files in one shot. Here, Edge will be able to translate entire PDFs across more than 70 languages. For this, just open the PDF directly in Edge and cl ... Read full article.