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LightPDF AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI PDF editor, converter and reader with very high traffic.
👁 1.8M/mo♥ 12K
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
ChatPDF lets users chat with and extract from PDFs; widely used, high traffic.
👁 1.8M/mo♥ 43K
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AI PDF Summarizer
✓ verifiedFree trial
Online PDF suite for summarizing, editing, converting, and signing.
👁 12M/mo♥ 8.7K
Pricing
Basic: $0/month
Pro: $20/month
Team: $49/month
Annual: $4.16/mo
Personal Annual: $4.16 /mo
Personal Monthly: $19.99
Personal Weekly: $13.99
Personal 3-Year: $2.77 /mo
No public pricing
No public pricing
Snip Pro: from $4.99/mo (free tier available)
Convert API: from $0.002/image (pay-as-you-go)
Files API: from $1.00 per 1,000 pages
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Integration with Notion databases
- ✦Unlimited fields and submissions
- ✦Customizable form styling
- ✦Conditional logic and validation rules
- ✦Ready-made form templates
- ✦File uploads
- ✦Multi-page forms
- ✦Email, Slack, and Discord notifications
- ✦Submission editing
- ✦Form protection (password, captcha)
- ✦PDF Editing
- ✦PDF Conversion
- ✦AI-Powered Tools
- ✦PDF Security
- ✦Cloud Storage
- ✦OCR
- ✦AI-powered PDF interaction
- ✦Text extraction from PDFs
- ✦GPT analysis of PDF content
- ✦Summarization and question answering
- ✦Cited sources in answers
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦AI-powered PDF summarization
- ✦PDF editing and signing
- ✦PDF conversion to various formats
- ✦Form filling and annotation
- ✦Document conversion to LaTeX, DOCX, Markdown, Excel, ChemDraw, etc.
- ✦Handwriting recognition
- ✦Table OCR
- ✦PDF search and reader
- ✦Secure conversion service
Use cases
- →Guest blog submission forms
- →Event attendee check-in forms
- →Customer satisfaction surveys
- →Patient intake forms
- →Photography quotation requests
- →Equipment rental requests
- →Photo shoot permit requests
- →Converting PDF to Word, PPT, Excel, TXT, PNG, JPG, etc.
- →Editing PDF documents by adding text, images, and watermarks.
- →Summarizing, translating, and analyzing PDF content using AI.
- →Protecting PDF files with passwords and signatures.
- →Merging and splitting PDF files.
- →Removing watermarks from PDFs and images.
- →Extracting information from research papers
- →Understanding legal contracts
- →Summarizing books and essays
- →Answering questions from manuals
- →Summarizing research papers and books
- →Editing and signing contracts
- →Converting PDFs to Word or JPG
- →Filling out tax and official forms
- →Making documents accessible
- →Processing chemical documents
- →Collaborating on documents
- →Training language models
- →Supporting academic research
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