AskYourPDF is an AI‑powered platform that transforms uploaded PDFs and text files into interactive knowledge bases, allowing users to chat with one or multiple documents, ask natural‑language questions, and receive source‑referenced answers. It also provides instant summarization, key‑point extraction, and a searchable library for organized document management across web, mobile, and various extensions, helping students, researchers, and professionals retrieve information quickly and boost productivity.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Users of PDFs, research papers, manuals, and other static documents spend extensive time manually searching, reading, and extracting specific information, which hampers productivity and slows decision‑making.
Solution
AskYourPDF provides an AI‑powered platform that turns uploaded PDFs and text files into interactive knowledge bases. Users can chat with one or multiple documents, ask natural‑language questions, and receive direct answers grounded in the content. The service also generates concise summaries, extracts key insights, and organizes files within a searchable library. It is available across web, desktop, mobile, Chrome extension, Zotero, and as a ChatGPT plugin, ensuring seamless access in the tools users already use. The underlying models (GPT‑5 series, Gemini, Claude) process documents locally in the cloud while maintaining GDPR‑compliant security and privacy. Pricing tiers scale from a free plan to enterprise options, offering higher document limits, advanced AI models, OCR support, and priority features.
Target Audience
Primary users are students, researchers, and professionals who need to extract information quickly from academic papers, technical manuals, or business documents, as well as enterprises that require AI‑enhanced document search and summarization for internal knowledge bases.
Features
- Conversational Q&A over single or multiple PDFs with AI‑generated, source‑referenced answers
- Instant summarization and key‑point extraction for lengthy documents
- Knowledge‑base library that indexes uploaded files for fast retrieval and organization
- Multi‑platform availability: web app, iOS/Android apps, Chrome extension, Zotero plugin, and ChatGPT integration
- Support for OCR to process scanned documents and images
- Tiered AI model selection (GPT‑5 Mini, GPT‑5.2, Gemini 2.5, Claude 4.5) to match accuracy and cost needs
- API for developers to embed document chat, search, and summarization into custom applications
- GDPR‑compliant data handling ensuring privacy of proprietary or sensitive content