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Reading is the slow part. Notes are what you come back to. Upload a PDF and lezrn turns it into 4 to 7 short sections of key points, written as full sentences, so you have something clean to review.
How to turn a PDF into notes
Upload the PDF
Click Upload file or drop your PDF on the box. It needs selectable text. DOCX, TXT and MD files work too.
Generate the notes
Hit Make my notes. The AI pulls out the definitions, key facts and common pitfalls and groups them under short headings.
Copy them and review
Select the notes and paste them into your doc, Notion or wherever you keep things. Then review them instead of just rereading: cover a section and try to recall it.
Example: notes from the Bill of Rights
Sections of the kind a public domain PDF turns into. Your notes have 4 to 7 sections, made from your own file.
- Freedoms of belief and expression
- The First Amendment protects freedom of religion, speech and the press, the right to assemble peacefully, and the right to petition the government.
- Protections for people accused of crimes
- The Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable searches and seizures and requires probable cause for warrants. The Fifth protects against double jeopardy and being forced to testify against yourself. The Sixth guarantees a speedy public trial, an impartial jury and a lawyer.
- Trials and punishment
- The Seventh Amendment keeps jury trials in many civil cases. The Eighth bans excessive bail, excessive fines and cruel and unusual punishment.
- Limits on federal power
- The Ninth says listing some rights doesn't take away others the people keep. The Tenth reserves powers not given to the federal government to the states or the people.
Best PDFs to turn into notes
Assigned readings
Handouts, articles and short readings. Get the key points in a few sections before class.
Textbook sections
Save the pages you were assigned as their own PDF. A focused section gives the tightest notes.
Lecture slides
Slides are mostly fragments. Notes from your slide PDF turn them into full sentences you can study from.
What you get
4 to 7 sections, each with a short heading and 3 to 6 bullet points. Each point is a full sentence that stands on its own, so the notes still make sense weeks later. The AI is told to use only what's in your PDF, nothing extra.
The notes are plain text on the page, so you can select them and paste them anywhere.
Scanned PDFs and long documents
The tool reads the text layer of the PDF. Typed documents and exported slides have one. Scanned pages don't, so they won't work.
Each run uses about the first 15,000 characters, around 2,500 words, which is a few pages of a dense textbook. For anything longer, split the PDF into sections and make notes for each one. Most PDF viewers can save a page range as a new file.
Frequently asked questions
How do I turn a PDF into notes?
Upload it here and hit Make my notes. You get organized notes in sections and bullet points, based on the text in your PDF.
Is there a free AI that makes notes from a PDF?
Yes. As a guest you get 3 free generations a day across all the AI tools. No account and no card.
Does it summarize the whole PDF?
It uses about the first 15,000 characters, around 2,500 words. For a longer PDF, split it into sections and run each one.
Does it work with scanned PDFs?
No. It needs selectable text. If you can highlight words in the PDF, it will work.
Can I paste the notes into Google Docs or Notion?
Yes. Select the text on the page and paste it wherever you want.
Do you keep my PDF?
No. The PDF is read in your browser and only its text is sent to the AI to write the notes. The file itself is never uploaded.