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FAQWe thought you might have some questions...
Does the Knowt AI PDF Summarizer use AI?
Yes! Our PDF Summarizing Tool reads your PDFs and creates a concise PDF summary and flashcards on the most important information. All you need to do is upload your PDF and the summarizing tool will give you a concise summary of key points. Once the summary is generated, Kai can also create practice questions and flashcards from your PDF for you to practice with.
What is the Knowt AI PDF Summarizer?
The Knowt PDF Summarizer is a PDF Summarizing tool build specifically for students to learn and understand their readings better. It saves students lots of time by outlining the key information from each PDF, elimininating all the fluff. Once you upload your PDF and generate a summary, you can also make flashcards from your PDF and create practice questions from your PDF.
How do I create practice test from PDFs?
Once you upload a PDF to the Knowt PDF Summarizer, press the test me button to generate practice questions that test you on the material using AI. This is a great way to focus your studying particularly on the material outlined in your PDF rather than wasting time on generic questions you find online. Our PDF Summarizing Tool makes you a practice test from your PDF & scores you on it to help you understand what you need to practice more.
Why do students use the Knowt AI PDF Summarizer for school?
Our PDF summarizer was particularly designed for students , so we trained it to understand your readings, pick out the most important information and use AI to summarize PDFs. Then, it helps you prepare for your exams by creating practice exams and flashcards that you can study with learn mode or spaced repetition.
How do I make flashcards from PDFs?
Once you upload a PDF, ask our AI to create flashcards from your PDFs using the buttons to the right of the PDF. Our PDF Summarizing tool will make flashcards in seconds so you can focus on learning them with our free study modes.
Why use Knowt's AI PDF Summarizer?
Our PDF Summarizer is the most efficient way to read your long PDFs AND learn all the information from it. Once you upload or import a PDF to our PDF summarizer, you can make flashcards from the PDF, summarize the PDF or create a practice test from the PDF. No matter which option you choose, our PDF Summarizing Tool will make sure to pick out the most important stuff from the PDF so you focus on the most important stuff!
What sites does Knowt summarize PDFs from?
You can summarize any PDF with our PDF summarizing tool by uploading it directly on knowt.com. Then, you can ask Kai to make you a PDF summary to study from.