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Summarize any PDF in 30 seconds.

Upload a research paper, book, or report — get a TL;DR, chapter map, key points, and quotable highlights with page numbers. We extract the text in your browser; the PDF itself never uploads.

Works with: research papers · books · reports · whitepapers · contracts · manuals

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Works on
  • Research papers
  • Contracts
  • Textbook chapters
  • Meeting notes
  • Product specs
  • Reports & whitepapers
  • Books
File limits

Up to 25 MB and ~300 pages. Longer docs are summarized with the most representative portions (with a notice). Your PDF stays in your browser — pdf.js extracts the text locally, we only send the extracted text to the model.

You get

A TL;DR, chapter-by-chapter map with page ranges, 4-8 anchor quotes with page numbers you can cite, and key points. Convert to a mind map or flashcards with one click, or paste the extracted text into the text summarizer for tone variants.

Won't work on

Image-only / scanned PDFs with no text layer — OCR them first, save as PDF, then come back. Password-protected PDFs — unlock before upload. PDFs with malformed text layers (bad encoding) — paste the plain text instead.

Pricing

Free with an account. Sign up for 30 runs/month (each PDF = 4 credits). Upgrade to Pro for 1,500/month.

Sample output

Here's what a real summary looks like.

Input: 47-page research paper on transformer architectures · output shown trimmed for space.

TL;DR

The paper introduces a scaled attention mechanism that replaces recurrence with parallel token comparison, cutting training time on WMT-EN-DE from ~3 weeks to ~3.5 days while improving BLEU by 2 points. Core claim: attention alone, without RNNs or convolutions, is sufficient for state-of-the-art sequence modeling.

Chapter map

  • pp. 1-3Motivation & prior workwhy RNNs are slow to train
  • pp. 3-6Model architecturemulti-head attention, positional encoding
  • pp. 6-9Training detailsAdam schedule, label smoothing
  • pp. 9-12ResultsBLEU scores, ablations

Anchor quotes

p. 4"Self-attention, sometimes called intra-attention, is an attention mechanism relating different positions of a single sequence in order to compute a representation of the sequence."
p. 10"Our model achieves 28.4 BLEU on the WMT 2014 English-to-German translation task, improving over the existing best results by more than 2 BLEU."

+ 3 more quotes · convert this into flashcards or a mind map in one click

Questions & answers

Do you upload my PDF to your servers? #

No. We extract the text in your browser using pdf.js — the raw file never leaves your device. Only the extracted text is sent to our AI to produce the summary.

What kinds of PDFs work best? #

Text-based PDFs: research papers, books, reports, whitepapers, contracts, manuals, articles. We detect the document type automatically and adapt the summary shape.

Can it handle scanned PDFs? #

Only if they have a text layer. Pure scans are images and need OCR first — try a free OCR tool, save the result as PDF, then come back.

How long can the PDF be? #

Up to 25MB and about 300 pages. Longer documents are summarized with the most representative portions — we add a notice when content is trimmed.

Will the page numbers in quotes be accurate? #

Yes, we pass page markers to the model so quotes and chapters reference the correct pages in your original PDF.

Is it free? #

First few summaries per day are free without signup. Free accounts get 30 credits/month. Each PDF costs 4 credits.

What languages are supported? #

The tool is English-first. Summaries of non-English documents work but come out in English by default. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Russian output are rolling out.

Can I share or export the summary? #

Every summary gets a unique shareable URL. You can copy the text, download an Anki-ready flashcard set, or turn it into a mind map — all linked from the result page.