Summarize PDF
Get a concise summary of a long document.
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The AI tools are on hold while we sort out server capacity. They'll be back soon — every other tool on the site still works with nothing uploaded.
Get a concise summary of a long document.
How to Summarize PDF
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Open the tool
Open the Summarize PDF tool and drop your file onto the page, or click to browse for it. Everything runs in your browser — the file is never uploaded.
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Generate the summary
Click Summarize and the AI produces a concise overview of the document's key points.
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Read or copy it
Read the summary on the page and copy it wherever you need it.
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Summarize PDF — frequently asked questions
Does this work on scanned PDFs?+
Only if the PDF has a selectable text layer. Purely scanned images with no OCR applied won't have any text to summarize.
Is there a document length limit?+
Very long documents are truncated to roughly the first 60,000 characters before summarizing, and the page tells you when that happens.
Do you upload my files to a server?+
No — every tool here processes your files entirely on your device, and nothing is uploaded to a server. The only exception is the AI tools, which send the extracted text (not the file) to Claude to do their work.
Is there a file size limit?+
There's no artificial limit we impose, but since processing happens in your browser, very large files (500+ MB or 1,000+ pages) are limited by your device's memory rather than by us.