PDF Research Assistant
Your entire PDF library, processed and ready to query
Upload research PDFs one at a time or in batches. Kognific extracts structured content from each, handles complex academic layouts, and makes every paper searchable, annotatable, and citable. Ask questions and get cited answers from your actual documents.
Start Researching- Layout-aware PDF extraction handles multi-column layouts, tables, figures, and footnotes
- Batch upload processes multiple PDFs in parallel without manual setup
- Ask questions about any PDF and get cited answers from the paper's actual text
- Highlight and annotate PDFs with five colors and a persistent annotations sidebar
- Search across the full text of every paper in your library
- Six citation styles and BibTeX export for any academic reference workflow
Layout-Aware PDF Extraction
Academic PDFs have complex layouts: multi-column text, tables, figures, footnotes, and headers. Kognific's extraction pipeline handles all of these correctly, producing clean structured content ready for analysis.
Batch PDF Processing
Upload an entire folder of PDFs and Kognific processes them in parallel. Each paper is extracted, summarized, and indexed. Return to a fully processed collection without waiting.
In-PDF Ask AI
Open any processed PDF and ask questions directly. The AI answers using only that document's content, with numbered inline citations linking to exact passages. Click through to verify every claim.
PDF Annotation
Highlight text with five colors, add notes to passages, and manage all annotations from a dedicated sidebar. Annotations persist across sessions and are searchable across your entire PDF library.
Cross-PDF Synthesis
Select multiple PDFs and run a literature review, thematic analysis, gap analysis, or methodology comparison across them. Each synthesis output cites the specific papers and passages it draws from.
Citation Generation
Kognific extracts bibliographic metadata from each PDF. Generate citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE, Harvard, or Vancouver with one click. Export as BibTeX for LaTeX workflows.
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