Reading
How do you read a PDF as text, without staying stuck in the box?
Reading a PDF as text means you can search, annotate and quote without copying a crooked line. the free tool extracts pages 1 to 15 of a digital PDF up to 8 MB into Markdown It does not summarise the dossier and it does not write an opinion: it opens the box.
How to do it in three steps
If the goal is an automatic summary, this page is not the summary. If the goal is the text in your hands, this is the page. The house engine reads the digital PDF and returns structure.
- Send a PDF with selectable text, up to 8 MB. Pages 1 to 15. A scan does not run OCR here.
- Read the preview. Search the Markdown for the clause, the item, the table. If the magazine column order shuffled, go back to the original PDF for the critical passage.
- Paste the text into the editor where you annotate. The citation remains yours: page, passage, context. The tool does not invent what the PDF did not have.
What to expect: formats, size and time
Digital PDF, 8 MB, pages 1 to 15, Markdown, no OCR, no summary, no chat about the file. Variable time. Free-page allowance.
Image PDFs, password PDFs and PDFs over 8 MB do not go in. What matters on page 40 needs a trim or the API. Faithful reading starts with the right file.
When to use the paid API
When the library must become indexable text in your system. The API converts the range; your pipe indexes. /products and /pricing.
One dossier today, fifteen pages: free page. A team shelf: API.
Frequently asked questions
Does the page summarise the PDF?
No. It returns structured text. The summary, if any, you write.
Can I ask questions about the file in a chat?
Not on this page. The contract is converting a digital PDF into Markdown.
Does the text come in human reading order?
It comes in the order the digital PDF declares. A double column can interleave it. Check the critical passage in the original.
Do footnotes come in?
When they are text in the PDF, they often enter the flow. They can appear far from the paragraph that called them.