Short Notes from Your PDF

A long chapter and not enough time to read it again? Upload a PDF of up to 10 MB and 30 pages, or paste the text, and get short notes for revision. No sign-up. Gistr helps you learn, research and teach any topic.

Revise from short notes, not the whole chapter

From a chapter to short notes

From a chapter to short notes

Upload a PDF or paste the text. You get the main points as short notes to revise from.

Keep them where you study

Keep them where you study

Copy the notes in one click or download them as a Markdown file.

Keep going in Gistr

Keep going in Gistr

Sign up free to open the file in Gistr, ask questions about it and quiz yourself on it.

How to make short notes from a PDF

1. Add your PDF or text

Upload a PDF with selectable text, or paste the text in the box above.

2. Get your notes

Press the arrow and wait for the notes. A long file can take a minute or two.

3. Copy or download

Copy the notes or download them as a Markdown file.

What the tool does

PDFs up to 10 MB

Accepts PDFs of up to 10 MB and 30 pages.

Or paste text

No PDF? Paste the text instead.

No sign-up

You do not need an account to make, copy or download notes.

Copy or download

Copy the notes in one click, or save them as a Markdown file.

Same file, same notes

The same file uploaded again returns the cached result for up to 30 days.

Text-based PDFs only

Scanned PDFs are not supported. The PDF needs text you can select.

Revise from more than one chapter

Gistr helps you learn, research and teach any topic.

Add your PDFs, videos and web pages to Gistr to get notes, ask questions about them, and make flashcards and quizzes to test yourself.

Who uses short notes

Students

Make short notes from a chapter the week before an exam.

Teachers

Turn a long reading into a short summary for a class.

Researchers

Skim a paper before you decide whether to read it in full.

Frequently asked questions

Upload the PDF at the top of this page, or paste its text, and press the arrow. Copy the notes or download them when they are ready.

This tool can use about 100,000 characters of English, and fewer in scripts such as Hindi. A longer document is shortened to fit, so parts are left out, and the page tells you when this happens.

Yes, these tools are free to use. There is a fair-use limit so they stay available for everyone.

No sign-up is needed. You only need an account if you want to keep working on the file in Gistr.

Up to 10 MB and 30 pages. A very long document can be shortened to fit, and the page tells you when this happens. The translator takes up to 10 pages.

Scanned PDFs are not supported. Upload a PDF with selectable text.

No file is kept beyond a 30-day cache of results. The cache is keyed by a hash of the file content.

Results are cached for up to 30 days, keyed by a hash of the file content, so an identical file returns the cached result.

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