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PDF Insight

Upload a PDF, get clean text, an AI summary and cited answer

FreemiumProductivity+1Listed Oct 17, 2026

About PDF Insight

PDF Insight is a web app for reading long PDFs faster. Upload a report, contract, book or paper and get clean, searchable Markdown you can copy or download, plus a short, medium or long AI summary with bullet-point key takeaways. Pro users can ask questions about the PDF and get answers grounded in and cited from the source text. It is built to keep tables and multi-column layouts intact. Free plan: 1 PDF. Pro: $15/month billed yearly ($180/yr) for 50 PDFs a month.

What PDF Insight does

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Read and understand long PDF documents faster by converting them to clean text and getting summaries and answers.

Best for
Students and researchers reading papersProfessionals reviewing reports and contractsReaders working through long books
Use it to
  • Converting PDFs to searchable Markdown
  • Summarizing long documents at different lengths
  • Extracting key takeaways from documents
  • Asking questions about a document and getting cited answers
  • Preserving tables and multi-column layouts in extracted text

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