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PDF Summarizer

Drop a PDF.
Walk away with the gist.

Upload any PDF up to 10 MB — research papers, contracts, ebooks, manuals. Clean summary, key points, or both, in seconds.

How it works

From PDF to TL;DR in seconds.

1
Drop your PDF

Up to 10 MB. Papers, contracts, ebooks, scanned docs — even multi-column layouts.

2
Pick the output

Concise paragraph, bullet list, key points, or "best lines" — your choice.

3
Read or export

Read the summary, copy to clipboard, or download as DOCX/PDF.

Built for serious reading

Papers. Contracts. Textbooks.

Our PDF pipeline handles 100+ page documents with multi-column layouts, footnotes, citations, and scanned-image PDFs (OCR included).

  • Multi-column layouts (academic papers, magazines)
  • Scanned PDFs with OCR (image-based docs)
  • Preserves section structure & headings
  • Citations and footnotes stay intact
research-paper.pdf 2.4 MB · 24 pages
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Features

Six reasons to ditch the highlighter.

Any PDF up to 10 MB

Papers, contracts, manuals, scanned text — drop it in.

Summary or bullets

Pick the output shape that fits how you read.

Private by default

PDFs are processed in memory and discarded.

OCR included

Scanned PDFs work too — we extract text from images.

Multi-language

English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and more.

Export anywhere

Copy, DOCX, PDF — drop into Notion, Word, Google Docs.

Use cases

Made for everyone who reads PDFs.

Students

Crunch through textbook chapters and lecture slides before the exam.

Researchers

Skim 100 papers a week — never miss the methods or findings.

Lawyers

Triage long contracts, discovery docs and case files in minutes.

Knowledge workers

Drop a 40-page report into the briefing window — read the summary instead.

FAQ

Common questions

What's the file size limit?
10 MB on the free and Pro plans. Most academic papers, contracts, and book chapters comfortably fit.
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Yes — we run OCR on image-based PDFs so even scanned documents can be summarized.
How long does it take?
Most PDFs return a summary in under 10 seconds. Very long documents (50+ pages) can take up to a minute.
Do you store the PDFs I upload?
No. PDFs are processed in memory, summarized, and immediately discarded.

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Drop in a PDF and read the gist instead. Free to try.

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