Should I pay for a PDF Summary Tool?
Or settle for the limited options of the free ones?
I was excited to discover that I could make PDFs more accessible by converting them to EPub format. PDFs went from being a pain to being precious. I was amazed at how much better ChatGPT performed than Google Advanced Search. Bing Copilot was even better because it’s current and provides the sources for the information it displays.
I write about various topics, and some PDFs are very long. Getting quick summaries enables me to filter out the documents that don’t fit the angle I want to focus on in my article. I was looking for a Blinkist for PDFs, so I searched for a PDF summary. I didn’t expect to find anything useful Was I ever wrong about that!
I found seven of them which work on a freemium basis. I save the bookmarks in a folder in my browser toolbar for quick access. The number of free documents varies, but they let you upload a document of less than 100 pages. You can copy the summary to a clipboard and paste it into a document. If you have 10 PDFs you want to summarize in one day, use different summarizers.
Some of these tools have more features than I want, and the prices vary. My needs are simple. The only reason I’d pay for a PDF summary tool is to upload and work with a file larger than 100 pages. I could see…
