Does it work on scanned PDFs?

Yes - pages are read visually, so scans and photographed pages work. Very heavy pages are rasterized and sent as images automatically.

The summary is saved to your library; the PDF itself is not kept after summarizing. See the privacy page for details.

Can it cite page numbers?

Section titles follow the paper's own structure. Ask a question about the saved paper and the answer refers to the relevant section.

🎌 Samuraize

Summarize research papers into what they actually found

Summarizer

Drop in a PDF and Samuraize slices it down to a short document of the ideas that matter — no scrolling through forty pages.

Upload a paper and Samuraize reads the PDF itself - including figures, tables and scanned pages - and writes a summary organized the way you'd present it in a journal club: the question, the method, the results, the limitations, and why it matters. Drop a PDF above to try it.

Reads the real PDF, not just extracted text

The document is sent to the model as a document, so charts, tables, equations and scanned pages are understood in context rather than lost. Two-column layouts and footnote-heavy papers come out clean.

Built for how papers are read

Summaries follow the structure researchers expect: research question, methodology, key findings with the numbers, limitations, and implications - so you can tell in two minutes whether a paper is worth reading in full.

Long documents and whole theses

Up to 100 pages and 4 MB on the free plan, 300 pages and 30 MB on Premium, 1,000 pages and 50 MB on Maximum. Long files are split into parts in your browser, summarized, and stitched back together in order - one summary, counted once by its length.

Interrogate the paper

Ask questions about a saved paper and get grounded answers, generate flashcards for the definitions, or a quiz to check you understood the method. Write the summary in any of 14 languages on any plan, or translate a saved one on Premium and Maximum.

Frequently asked

Does it work on scanned PDFs?: Yes - pages are read visually, so scans and photographed pages work. Very heavy pages are rasterized and sent as images automatically.
Is my paper stored?: The summary is saved to your library; the PDF itself is not kept after summarizing. See the privacy page for details.
Can it cite page numbers?: Section titles follow the paper's own structure. Ask a question about the saved paper and the answer refers to the relevant section.

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