Contracts, research papers, reports, invoices — even scans without a text layer. The extraction pipeline tries several methods and falls back to OCR automatically, so you get a real summary instead of a parsing error.
Drag a PDF into the browser, or POST it to the API as multipart form data. No copy-pasting text out of a document viewer first.
The text layer is pulled with a parser first; if that comes back thin (a scan, a badly-encoded export), the pipeline falls back through pdftotext, PyPDF2, and OCR until it gets usable text.
Page numbers, repeated headers/footers, and OCR artifacts get filtered out before the text ever reaches the summarization model.
An LLM chain (fast primary model with automatic fallback if it's unavailable) produces the summary in your chosen length, format and language.
Your uploaded file is used only for extraction and deleted right after processing — we don't retain a copy of your document on our servers.
Same pipeline behind a REST endpoint: send a PDF, get JSON back (or stream it token by token). One key, one request.
Get the key obligations and dates out of a 40-page contract before the meeting where someone asks about it.
Skim the abstracts of a stack of papers before deciding which ones deserve a full read.
Board decks, quarterly reports, compliance filings — the highlights, without scrolling past page 3.
Old scans and photographed pages with no text layer still go through — OCR kicks in automatically.
Turn a lecture PDF or textbook chapter into a study-ready summary in under a minute.
Bolt PDF summarization onto an app or internal tool with one POST request and a JSON response.
No credit card for the free tier. Paid plans raise the monthly volume, the pages-per-file ceiling, and add priority processing.
To try it for real, on your own PDFs.
For regular use and small integrations
Yes. Extraction tries several methods in order — native text-layer parsing, pdftotext, PyPDF2 — and falls back to OCR when a page turns out to be mostly a scanned image. Most real-world PDFs get readable text out of at least one of those.
The free demo above accepts files up to 20MB and 300 pages. Paid API plans raise the pages-per-file ceiling — see the pricing table.
They're used only to extract text for summarization, then deleted from the server right after processing. We don't keep a copy of your document.
Yes — short/medium/long/extensive length, paragraph/bullets/mixed format, and an output language independent from the document's original language.
Yes — POST a PDF as multipart form data, get a JSON summary back (or stream it as server-sent events). See the docs for auth, request/response format and code samples.
Password-protected or genuinely empty PDFs will return a clear error instead of a garbled summary — you'll know immediately rather than getting nonsense output.
Upload it above, or wire the API into whatever you're building. Free to start, no credit card required.
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