Chat with your PDF — summarise, quiz and ask questions
Upload a PDF or text file and work with it: get a summary, extract study notes, build flashcards, generate practice questions, ask for an explanation of a hard passage, or just ask a question about what's in the document.
From 22 credits per use. Every account gets 22 free credits a day. Last updated 13 October 2026.
What it does
- Summary — the main points of the whole document
- Notes — structured study notes from the text
- Flashcards — key terms and facts to self-test
- Questions — practice questions from the content
- Explain — a clearer version of a difficult passage
- Ask — any question, answered from the document
How it works
Upload a document
Add a PDF or text file.
Pick what you need
Summary, notes, flashcards, questions, an explanation, or a specific question.
Keep going
Ask follow-ups or switch mode — you don't need to upload it again.
Try asking
- “Summarise chapter 3 in 10 bullet points.”
- “Make 15 practice questions from this paper, with answers.”
- “Explain the second paragraph on page 4 as if I'm new to the subject.”
Good to know
- Reading a whole document is one of the most expensive actions in Learnsable: it uses 22 credits, which is a full day of the Free plan.
- Scanned PDFs with no selectable text can't be read as well as text-based ones.
- For merging, splitting or rotating PDFs, use the free PDF Toolkit — it costs no credits.
Frequently asked questions
Can it handle a long textbook chapter?
It works best on a chapter or paper at a time. For a whole book, split it into sections first (the PDF Toolkit can do that).
Is my PDF kept?
Files you attach to a PDF question are sent to our AI provider to generate the answer; see our privacy policy for details on what is and isn't stored.
How is this different from the notes generator?
The notes generator turns material into notes, a mind map and flashcards. The PDF tool lets you work with one document in several ways, including asking it questions.
Related tools
- AI Notes GeneratorTurn slides, PDFs, documents, photos or pasted text into clean notes, a mind map and flashcards you can revise from. Export to PDF, Word or Markdown.
- PDF ToolkitMerge, split, rotate, watermark and page-number PDFs entirely in your browser. Your files aren't uploaded to a server, and it costs no credits.
- AI Research AssistantAsk a research question and get a source-backed answer with links to the pages it used. Verify it yourself, then cite it properly.
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