PDF Tools for Academic Papers

Academic literature is 95% PDFs. Whether you're surveying a new field, finishing a dissertation lit review, or keeping up with a weekly preprint flood, PDF Genie's AI toolkit shortens the time between downloading a paper and having something useful in your notes. Summarize a 60-page paper to 3 paragraphs in 20 seconds; ask a question about the methodology section and get a grounded answer; translate a foreign-language paper into English; export the whole thing to Markdown for your Obsidian vault.

AI Summarize produces faithful, abstract-style summaries at your chosen length (short / medium / long). Under the hood, Claude reads the full text and writes a summary grounded only in what's in the paper — no hallucinated references, no external facts.

For interactive research, Chat with PDF keeps the paper in context and lets you ask follow-up questions. "What statistical test was used?", "Compare their results to Smith 2021", "Explain figure 3 to me" — all answered from the paper text.

Translate PDF handles papers in Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, and 50+ other languages, translating to your target language while preserving reference lists and figure captions.

PDF to Markdown converts a paper into a clean .md file with headings, paragraphs, and basic lists preserved — perfect for pasting into Obsidian, Notion, Roam, or feeding back into your own AI pipeline.