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AskYourPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI assistant to chat with, summarize and auto-fill PDFs, aimed at students and professionals extracting insights from documents.
226K visits/mo48K saves
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Summarize.ing
✓ verifiedFreemium
YouTube summarizer turning video links into digests with highlights and mind maps, useful for students and researchers.
98K visits/mo5.9K saves
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AI PDF Summarizer
✓ verifiedFree trial
Online PDF suite for summarizing, editing, converting, and signing.
12M visits/mo8.7K saves
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ChatDOC
✓ verifiedFree
AI assistant extracting and summarizing document info; real adoption.
90K visits/mo15K saves
Pricing
Free: $0
Vial: $20
Inkwell: $40
Free: $0 (50 questions/day)
Premium: $11.99/mo (billed yearly)
Pro: $14.99/mo (billed yearly)
Free trial available
Pro: $7.49/mo (50 summaries/day, videos under 60 min)
Premium: $15.7/mo (100 summaries/day, videos under 120 min)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Automatic transcription and summarization of TTRPG sessions
- ✦Customizable narrator and background music
- ✦Audio/video recap generation
- ✦Support for various audio formats
- ✦Option to proofread and edit the summary
- ✦Chat across multiple documents
- ✦Instant document summaries
- ✦AI PDF form auto-filling
- ✦Document library organization
- ✦Chrome extension and mobile apps
- ✦ChatGPT and Zotero integrations
- ✦Paste a YouTube link to get a summary in under a minute
- ✦Segmented, timestamp-aware breakdowns of long videos
- ✦Auto-generated mind maps of video content
- ✦Key concept and keyword extraction
- ✦Auto-generated Q&A pairs for review
- ✦Choice of underlying AI model (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4)
- ✦AI-powered PDF summarization
- ✦PDF editing and signing
- ✦PDF conversion to various formats
- ✦Form filling and annotation
- ✦Chat with documents
- ✦Instant answers with cited sources
- ✦AI analysis of selected texts/tables
- ✦Query across multiple documents
- ✦Supports various file formats
Use cases
- →Creating recaps of Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, or other TTRPG sessions
- →Sharing recaps with your party at the beginning of the next session
- →Immortalizing game sessions with captivating audio/video recaps
- →Summarizing long reports or papers
- →Extracting data from contracts
- →Auto-filling repetitive PDF forms
- →Studying and reviewing course material
- →Reviewing lecture or tutorial videos without watching in full
- →Extracting key takeaways from long interviews or talks
- →Building study notes from educational YouTube content
- →Quickly deciding whether a video is worth watching
- →Summarizing research papers and books
- →Editing and signing contracts
- →Converting PDFs to Word or JPG
- →Filling out tax and official forms
- →Summarizing long documents
- →Explaining complex concepts
- →Finding key information in seconds
- →Turbocharging research
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