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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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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI reading aid that explains highlighted passages of research papers in plain language to speed up dense academic reading.
56K visits/mo15K saves
Pricing
Pro Standard (Yearly): 800 /month
Pro Premium (Yearly): 4,000 /month
for Business: Contact for Pricing
Free: $0/m
Pro: $12.4/m (Billed annually $149)
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo
Pro: $16/mo
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Instant PDF translation
- ✦Layout preservation
- ✦Side-by-side English and Japanese viewing
- ✦Chrome extension for one-click translation
- ✦Translation without DeepL subscription (optional)
- ✦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
- ✦pdf chat
- ✦pdf summarizer
- ✦Highlight-to-explain any text
- ✦Follow-up questions on a paper
- ✦Whole-paper summaries (Pro)
- ✦Math and figure explanations (Pro)
- ✦Zotero library import
- ✦Saved highlights and explanations
Use cases
- →Translating English research papers into Japanese
- →Translating technical specifications from English to Japanese
- →Quickly understanding English documents in Japanese
- →Educators creating engaging assessments
- →HR professionals generating compliance assessments
- →Publishers scaling content creation efficiently
- →Talk with your books in a new way! PDF Summarizer lets you have back-and-forth chats with your books, making reading more fun and lively.
- →Make research easier with PDF Summarizer. Work together better and share what you know by simply chatting with scientific papers.
- →No more boring number work! Chat with your financial reports using PDF Summarizer and get quick answers just when you need them.
- →Not sure how to set up your device? Chat with the user manual through PDF Summarizer for quick, helpful guidance to get you started right away.
- →Stop struggling with hard-to-read legal terms! With PDF Summarizer, you can easily understand and talk about legal documents.
- →Make training more fun! PDF Summarizer turns training materials into chat partners, so learning feels as simple as talking with someone who knows the answers.
- →Understand dense research papers
- →Decode academic jargon
- →Summarize papers quickly
- →Learn unfamiliar technical fields
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