Textbook summarizer
Summarise the textbook around your course
A whole textbook does not have to become one huge summary. Upload the book, review the chapters Examo finds and match the readings to your course sections. Study one chapter or assigned page range at a time.
- Chapter discovery
- Choose assigned readings
- Match your syllabus
One book, mapped to your course
Example with sample content.
Sample reading plan
Chapter 4: Demand. Chapter 5: Supply. Chapter 6: Market equilibrium.
Course structure you choose
Section: Markets. Add the assigned pages from Chapters 4–6 and keep their summary material together. Another section can cover a different reading later.
Use chapter boundaries and your syllabus together; a chapter number does not have to be a course section's name.
How it works
Select a step to see what happens in it.
- A textbook file you are allowed to use, such as a PDF or EPUB.
- The chapters or page ranges assigned for your course.
- The course sections those readings belong to.
Example with sample content
Try it
See a structured study summary using sample course content.
This example runs in your browser on made-up course content. It does not use your data or AI.
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What you add, what you get
You add
- A textbook file you are allowed to use, such as a PDF or EPUB.
- The chapters or page ranges assigned for your course.
- The course sections those readings belong to.
You get
- Detected chapters to review before choosing your material.
- Structured summary notes in the relevant sections.
- Prepared material for chapter-based questions, flashcards, mind maps and Loki.
What makes it different
- The syllabus sets the structureOrganise by your sections instead of assuming every textbook chapter is a separate teaching week.
- Choose what you needUse assigned chapters or page ranges so unrelated parts of the book do not dilute the reading.
- The reading becomes practiceUse the prepared summary for questions, cards and explanations without another upload for every tool.
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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Can Examo summarise a whole textbook?
Upload a textbook, review its detected chapters and choose how to add the readings to your course. Process relevant chapters or page ranges rather than expect one unlimited whole-book request.
Do chapters have to become separate weeks?
No. Map the readings to sections that match your syllabus. Section names do not have to be week numbers.
Can I summarise just one chapter?
Yes. Choose the assigned chapter or page range and its destination section.
Can I generate questions from the textbook?
Yes. Examo prepares the summary foundation, then uses it for additional tools such as questions and flashcards.
What if chapter detection is wrong?
Check the suggested boundaries against the book before continuing and select the correct page ranges for your reading.
Works with the rest of your course
- PDF to notesTurn a reading or slide PDF into structured notes in your course.
- 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.
- AI summary generatorStructured summaries of lectures, slides, PDFs and books.
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