Chat with PDF

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Chat with PDF turns a static file into something you can actually talk to. Upload a PDF and ask questions in plain language, what does this clause mean, what is the total, when is it due, summarize section three, and get answers drawn straight from the document. Behind the scenes ocr.chat reads the whole file, including scanned and image-only pages that ordinary PDF tools cannot search, so you can interrogate any PDF rather than scrolling through it page by page.

It is built for anyone who works with long or dense PDFs: contracts, research papers, manuals, reports, statements, and policies. Instead of using Ctrl+F and hoping you guess the right keyword, you ask the question you actually have and the answer comes back with a citation to the exact page, so you can jump to the source and confirm it. Every reply is grounded in your document, the assistant is instructed to answer only from the text it extracted, and to tell you when something is not in the file rather than inventing it.

Getting started takes seconds and there is nothing to install. Drop in a PDF, wait for the text extraction, and start asking. Your original is shown beside the extracted text so you can see what was read, and your files are deleted automatically after processing, never sold or shared. Free recognition covers printed and digital PDFs; document chat runs on a free account, with paid plans from $5/mo for more pages, longer documents, and unlimited questions.

How to chat with pdf

1
Upload your PDF
Drag in or select the PDF you want to chat with, scanned or digital, single or multi-page.
2
Let ocr.chat read it
The document is OCR'd and indexed so every page, including image-only scans, becomes searchable text.
3
Ask your questions
Type any question in the chat box, for a summary, a specific figure, a date, or what a section means.
4
Check the citations
Each answer cites the page it came from, so you can open the original and verify it in one click.

Common uses

  • Professionals reviewing contracts and agreements without reading every clause line by line.
  • Students and researchers questioning long papers, textbooks, and reports to find what matters.
  • Finance and ops teams pulling totals, dates, and terms out of statements and invoices.
  • Support and legal staff searching policies and manuals for the exact answer to a question.
  • Anyone digesting a dense government, medical, or insurance PDF they did not write.
  • Job seekers and analysts summarizing filings, prospectuses, and whitepapers quickly.

Frequently asked questions

Keyword search only finds exact words you already know to look for. Here you ask a real question in plain language and get a synthesized answer pulled from anywhere in the document, with a page citation.

Yes. Scanned and image-only PDFs are run through OCR first, so you can chat with documents that have no selectable text layer, not just digital PDFs.

The assistant is instructed to answer only from your document's text and to cite the page it used. If the answer is not in the file, it tells you rather than guessing.

Yes. Every answer references the page it drew on, and your original is shown beside the extracted text so you can confirm it against the source.

Short and medium documents work on a free account; longer documents and more questions are covered by paid plans. Pages are counted toward your quota when the file is read.

Recognition covers 100+ languages, and you can ask your questions and get answers in your own language.

Yes. The chat keeps the thread, so you can drill in with follow-ups and refer back to earlier answers in the same conversation.

Your PDF is processed only to extract its text and answer your questions, then deleted automatically. We never sell or share your documents.

You can OCR a PDF with no signup. Chatting with it needs a free account, which also saves your history and unlocks more pages each month.

Yes. Alongside chatting you can copy or export the full text as plain text, Markdown, Word, or a searchable PDF.

It reads tables and structured content into the text it chats from, so you can ask about figures and line items, though very complex layouts are best confirmed against the original.

Yes. Paid plans include a REST API so you can extract text and automate document question-answering in your own workflows.

Use this via the API

Run this tool programmatically with a single POST. Authenticate with the API token from your account page.

curl -X POST https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -F "file=@your-file.pdf" \
  -F "tool=pdf"

Files of 5 pages or fewer return the result inline; otherwise poll the job, then download it as md:

curl -L "https://ocr.chat/api/v1/ocr/JOB_UUID/download/?format=md" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" -o result.md

Then ask questions about the document, with answers cited to the page:

curl -X POST https://ocr.chat/api/v1/chat/JOB_UUID/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "Summarize this document"}'
Read the API docs →

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