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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Readable
✓ verifiedPaid
Instant English-to-Japanese PDF translation preserving layout; useful focused tool.
87K visits/mo177 saves
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ScantextAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free browser-based OCR tool that converts uploaded images into editable, downloadable PDF text in 50+ languages.
3.1K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Pro Standard (Yearly): 800 /month
Pro Premium (Yearly): 4,000 /month
for Business: Contact for Pricing
Free: $0
Free: $0/m
Pro: $12.4/m (Billed annually $149)
Core features
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦Instant PDF translation
- ✦Layout preservation
- ✦Side-by-side English and Japanese viewing
- ✦Chrome extension for one-click translation
- ✦Translation without DeepL subscription (optional)
- ✦Drag-and-drop image upload for OCR
- ✦Editable text output before saving
- ✦Support for JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, WEBP formats
- ✦50+ language recognition support
- ✦PDF export of extracted text
- ✦No file storage claimed for privacy
- ✦AI identifies key concepts automatically
- ✦Multiple question types supported
- ✦Adjustable difficulty levels
- ✦Works with any YouTube video — questions match video content
- ✦Handles multi-page documents — extracts text and generates instantly
Use cases
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Translating English research papers into Japanese
- →Translating technical specifications from English to Japanese
- →Quickly understanding English documents in Japanese
- →Digitizing handwritten notes or printed documents
- →Extracting text from invoices and receipts
- →Converting scanned book pages into editable text
- →Making screenshots or images searchable
- →Educators creating engaging assessments
- →HR professionals generating compliance assessments
- →Publishers scaling content creation efficiently
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