PDF to notes

Turn your PDF into notes you can learn from

A reading should become something you can understand, not another wall of text. Add your PDF, choose the relevant pages and get a structured summary in the right course section, ready for questions, flashcards and Loki.

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Organised by section
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Recorded in Examo with sample content. This shows the ai summary generator workflow.

From a dense slide to a clear idea

Example with sample content.

Sample PDF passage

Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in price, ceteris paribus.

Study note

Elasticity compares the percentage change in quantity demanded with the percentage change in price. If the absolute value is below 1, demand is inelastic: quantity changes proportionally less than price.

Next, ask why petrol demand may be inelastic in the short run, or practise calculating elasticity from an example.

How it works

Select a step to see what happens in it.

Step 1 of 3You add

A PDF of lecture slides, a reading or a textbook chapter.
The page range you want to study.
The course section where those notes belong.

Example with sample content

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Compare a sample economics slide with its structured study summary.

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What you add, what you get

You add

A PDF of lecture slides, a reading or a textbook chapter.
The page range you want to study.
The course section where those notes belong.

You get

Structured summary notes with headings, explanations and key ideas.
Relevant source figures where they help.
Saved material for flashcards, practice questions and Loki.

What makes it different

One assigned readingChoose the pages for this lesson so the notes stay focused on what you need.
Explanations, not extracted textThe PDF becomes a structured summary, with ideas grouped for studying rather than copied into a transcript.
Keep the next step nearbyAsk Loki about the section or create recall practice without moving the material into a separate chat.

Examo vs a general AI chat

Topic	Examo	A general AI chat
Where it lives	One summary per week or section, kept in your course.	A chat thread you keep track of yourself.
Long books	Examo finds a textbook's chapters and lets you match them to your course weeks.	You decide how to split a long book and where each part goes.
Lectures	Record in Examo, or upload audio and video files up to 1 GB.	You usually prepare a transcript or file first.
What comes next	Practice questions, flashcards, mind maps and Loki in the same course.	Each new task starts from a new prompt.

Examo as it works today. General AI chat apps differ, and many can do more with careful prompts.

Good to know

On Free, PDFs up to 100 MB and other files up to 20 MB, with larger files on Pro. Up to 300 pages per addition (150 recommended).
Recordings up to 3 hours each. Free includes 60 recording minutes in total; Pro includes more each month.
AI summaries can contain mistakes. Check definitions, numbers and citations against the original.

Plans

Free includes summaries within a monthly allowance. Pro adds audio summaries and podcasts, larger files and a bigger recording allowance. Plans in the FAQ.

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Questions

How do I turn a PDF into study notes?

Add the PDF to an Examo course, select its pages and choose a destination section. Examo generates a structured summary there, which you can read before creating other study tools.

Can I choose only part of a PDF?

Yes. Select the page range for your reading. For a whole textbook, review the detected chapters and map the readings to your course sections.

Does PDF to notes also create flashcards?

The summary is the foundation. Select flashcards or practice questions as additional content; they use the material prepared for that section.

Can I use scanned PDFs?

Examo reads scanned pages as part of document processing. Clear scans give it a better source; check formulas and hard-to-read passages against the original.

PDF to quizMake practice questions from the PDF pages you actually need.
PDF to flashcardsUse a chapter or slide PDF for question-and-answer recall practice.
Textbook summarizerFind the chapters and organise book notes around your syllabus.
AI summary generatorStructured summaries of lectures, slides, PDFs and books.

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