Chat with your PDF documents using AI. Ask questions, get summaries, extract key information — without reading every page.
A 60-page research paper. A 40-page contract. A 200-page technical manual. Reading these cover-to-cover to find specific information is time-consuming and often unnecessary.
The AI PDF assistant lets you upload the document and ask questions directly. 'What are the payment terms?', 'Summarize the findings', 'What risks are mentioned?' — the AI reads the document and gives you a direct answer.
Chat with your documents
Analyze, summarize, and ask questions about your PDF
Maximum size: 20MB
Summarize long papers
Find specific info
Explain complex concepts
The AI PDF assistant extracts the text content from your uploaded PDF and makes it available for natural language conversation. You ask questions, the AI searches the document content and formulates answers based on what's actually written. It's not generating information — it's finding and summarizing information that already exists in your document.
Use cases include:
Reviewing a contract to find specific clauses without reading every page.
Summarizing a research paper's key findings before deciding whether to read it fully.
Extracting all dates, deadlines, or obligations from a legal document.
Understanding a technical manual's troubleshooting section without reading the whole manual.
Getting a quick overview of a business report before a meeting.
Checking whether a document mentions specific terms, names, or conditions.
The AI PDF assistant is most valuable for long documents where finding specific information manually would take significant time.
Upload, ask, get answers.
Upload the PDF you want to analyze.
Wait for the AI to process the document (usually a few seconds for typical documents).
Ask your first question in plain English. The AI will respond based on the document content.
Continue the conversation — ask follow-up questions, request summaries, or ask for specific information.
Upload, ask questions, get answers. The conversation continues as long as you need.
Upload your PDF. The tool extracts the text content from all pages.
The text is processed into semantic chunks and indexed for retrieval.
You ask a question. The system retrieves the most relevant document sections.
The AI generates an answer based on the retrieved content, citing what the document says.
The AI uses a retrieval-augmented generation approach to answer questions about your document.
The PDF text is extracted and split into chunks. Each chunk is converted into a vector embedding — a mathematical representation of its semantic meaning.
When you ask a question, the question is also converted to an embedding. The system finds the document chunks most semantically similar to your question.
The relevant chunks are passed to the language model along with your question. The model generates an answer based on the retrieved content, grounded in what the document actually says.
For documents where you need to find specific information quickly without reading everything.
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Find answers to common questions about our PDF tools
You can ask anything about the document's content — 'What are the main conclusions?', 'Summarize section 3', 'What does this contract say about termination?', 'List all the dates mentioned'. The AI reads the document and answers based on what's in it.
The AI answers based on the text in your document. For factual questions about document content, accuracy is high. For interpretation or inference questions, the AI may occasionally miss nuance. Always verify critical information against the source document.
Scanned PDFs that are image-only (no text layer) need OCR processing first to extract the text. If your scanned PDF already has a text layer (searchable PDF), the AI can read it directly. Use our OCR tool first if your scanned document isn't searchable.
The tool handles documents of typical professional length — reports, contracts, research papers, manuals. Very large documents (hundreds of pages) may take longer to process. The AI reads the full document before answering.
Your document is processed to extract text for the AI conversation. Files are deleted after your session ends. The document content is not used for training or stored permanently.
Yes. Ask specifically: 'Summarize the executive summary', 'What does section 4 cover?', 'Give me the key points from the methodology section'. The AI can focus on specific parts of the document.
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