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Ask questions about your PDF and get page-cited answers — fully on-device, nothing uploaded.
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Privacy: everything runs in your browser — files never leave your device.
PDF Q&A lets you ask natural questions about any text-based PDF and instantly surfaces the most relevant pages with supporting snippets. All search happens locally in your browser — your document and your questions never leave your device.
How it works:After uploading, the tool extracts all embedded text page-by-page using your browser’s local processing. Each question is broken into keywords and matched against every page. Pages are ranked by relevance and returned with cited snippets so you can verify answers in context.
Find payment terms, termination clauses, or renewal dates without reading every page.
Jump to the methodology, conclusions, or cited references in long academic PDFs.
Locate revenue figures, risk factors, or footnotes in quarterly filings instantly.
Search technical documentation or user manuals for the exact setting or step you need.
No. Your PDF and every question you type stay entirely in your browser. There is no upload, no cloud processing, and no data collection of any kind.
Scanned or image-based PDFs don’t contain embedded searchable text. Run them through an OCR tool first, then re-upload here. The tool will warn you if it detects a scanned PDF automatically.
First, a hybrid retrieval engine (BM25 keyword + TF-IDF vector + entity overlap) ranks all passages in your PDF. Then a DistilBERT reading-comprehension model — running entirely in your browser — reads the top passages and extracts the exact text span that best answers your question. If the model is confident, the extracted answer is shown at the top. Source pages are always shown for verification.
There is no hard page limit. Very large PDFs (500+ pages) may take a few extra seconds to index — progress is shown throughout.
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