AskYourPDF

AskYourPDF is an AI-powered document analysis platform designed to help students, researchers, professionals, lawyers, marketers, and organizations interact with documents through natural-language conversations. The platform allows users to upload documents, ask questions about their contents, generate summaries, extract information, and analyze several documents together. Its current product has expanded beyond its original PDF-chat experience to include an AI website agent, AI-powered PDF form filling, knowledge bases, document summarization, browser and mobile tools, and an API for developers.

The platform’s central feature is Chat with Docs, which turns uploaded documents into conversational sources. Instead of manually reading through a lengthy document to locate a particular piece of information, users can ask questions in plain language and receive answers based on the uploaded material. The service can work with PDFs as well as other formats including TXT, PPT, PPTX, EPUB, RTF, and CSV. This makes it useful for more than conventional PDF reading.

AskYourPDF is designed to keep document information within the context provided by the user. Its website describes the AI agent as answering from the website pages and files supplied to it, making it useful when an organization wants an assistant to work from its own approved information rather than general internet knowledge. This approach can support internal documentation, customer-facing knowledge resources, research collections, and other document-heavy workflows.

A major feature is multi-document conversation. Rather than limiting a question to one file, users can organize several documents into a Knowledge Base and ask questions across them. This allows information from multiple documents to be considered together. For example, a researcher can work with a collection of papers, a legal professional can review multiple case-related documents, or a business can organize product and policy documentation in one searchable knowledge environment.

AskYourPDF also provides instant document summarization. Users can turn lengthy files into shorter summaries and extract their main points without manually reading every page first. Summaries can help users decide whether a document is relevant, understand its general contents, or quickly review material they have already encountered. The platform also supports extracting specific information from documents through targeted questions.

The platform’s current feature set includes a Document Widget that can be embedded into websites. This allows a document to appear alongside an AI chat interface so visitors can read the source and ask questions about it in the same location. Organizations can use this approach to make manuals, reports, policies, guides, and other documents interactive rather than simply presenting them as static downloads.

Another important capability is the AI Agent. AskYourPDF allows an organization to train an AI agent on its website and uploaded documents, then embed that agent into a website with a line of code. According to the current product page, the agent can be deployed on plain HTML sites and platforms such as WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Shopify, and Squarespace, as well as frameworks such as React, Vue, and Next.js. This makes AskYourPDF relevant not only as a personal research tool but also as a customer-facing knowledge and support system.

The AI Agent can use a combination of website content and uploaded files as its knowledge source. A company can therefore provide its public website pages together with internal or supporting documents and have the agent respond using both sources. AskYourPDF states that the agent answers from the sources supplied by the organization, allowing teams to build domain-specific assistants around their own material.

AskYourPDF has also introduced an AI PDF Form Filler. This feature can automatically complete fillable or non-fillable PDF forms using information from another PDF, a text file, or pasted content. The platform maps the relevant data to the appropriate fields, reducing the need for repetitive manual entry. This is particularly relevant to workflows involving applications, onboarding documents, intake forms, and recurring paperwork.

The form-filling feature expands AskYourPDF beyond document comprehension. While document chat focuses on extracting and understanding information, the form filler focuses on taking information from one source and using it to populate another document. This can be useful for repetitive administrative processes where the same information must be transferred between documents.

The platform also includes OCR support, allowing text to be extracted from scanned documents and images. OCR is especially useful for older documents or files created from scans where the text is not directly selectable. With OCR available on the paid plans, users can make these documents searchable and interact with their contents through the AI interface.

Another major capability is research assistance. AskYourPDF provides a research-oriented workflow through which users can upload documents, build Knowledge Bases, ask questions, generate summaries, and work with published research papers. The platform also provides free tools such as a literature-review writer, essay maker, thesis-statement generator, paragraph generator, and other writing utilities. These features make it relevant to academic users, although the platform’s primary strength remains document interaction and information extraction.

AskYourPDF also supports citation and source-oriented workflows. Its product and API capabilities can provide answers tied to document content, and the platform supports citation generation in its research-oriented features. This can help students and researchers organize information from papers and other source material, although AI-generated citations should still be checked against the original source before academic or professional use.

The platform can work with a wide range of document types. In addition to PDF, the current site identifies TXT, PPT, PPTX, EPUB, RTF, and other file formats as supported inputs. This allows users to bring books, presentations, notes, research files, and other text-based resources into the same environment rather than converting every resource into PDF first.

AskYourPDF also provides chat history and conversation sharing. Users can revisit previous conversations and download chat histories. The sharing functionality enables a conversation to be shared by link, which can be useful when colleagues or customers need to see the questions and answers generated from a document.

The product is available across multiple platforms. In addition to the main web application, AskYourPDF offers iOS and Android mobile apps, a Chrome extension, a Zotero plugin, and a ChatGPT plugin. This gives users several ways to work with their documents depending on whether they are researching in a browser, managing references, or using a conversational AI interface.

For developers, AskYourPDF provides an API. The API allows applications to upload documents, initiate document conversations, interact with multiple documents, and extract information programmatically. The API documentation also allows developers to select supported AI models, request source citations, control response length, and specify the language used for conversations. This makes AskYourPDF suitable for organizations that want to embed document intelligence into their own software instead of relying entirely on the standalone web application.

The API has its own usage tiers. The developer platform currently provides a Free API option with 100 messages and 5,000 pages per month. An API Pro offering is available at $49.99/month with 6,000 messages and 60,000 pages per month, while Enterprise API deployments use customized high-volume pricing. The API supports several current models including GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5.2, GPT-5 Nano, Gemini 2.5 Flash, GPT-5, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Claude 4.5 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, with some premium models consuming additional credits.

Security and privacy are important aspects of the platform. AskYourPDF states that it is GDPR compliant and uses encryption and privacy standards to protect documents and conversations. The company says that content used to train an AI agent and the conversations handled by the agent remain protected. Organizations using the service for confidential material should nevertheless review the current security and data-processing terms and ensure they meet their own compliance requirements.

AskYourPDF’s current consumer pricing is based on a freemium subscription model. The Free plan costs $0 and permits one document per day, up to 100 pages per document, a 15MB maximum upload size, 50 questions per day, and three conversations per day. The Premium plan costs $11.99/month when billed annually and expands the document size to 2,500 pages, allows 50 documents per day, raises the question limit to 1,200 per day, and includes Knowledge Bases, summarization, OCR, Chrome Extension access, and additional AI models.

The Pro plan costs $14.99/month when billed annually and increases the document limit to 6,000 pages, the maximum upload size to 877MB, and the daily document allowance to 150. It also provides up to 100,000 questions per day, 10,000 conversations per day, longer replies, priority support, priority access to new features, unlimited ChatGPT plugin questions, and additional model options. Enterprise plans provide custom pricing, unlimited document pages, up to 1,000 document uploads per day, customized credits, and organization-oriented capabilities.

The public pricing page states that annual billing provides a 25% discount, although the displayed Premium price of $11.99 compared with the older $14.99 monthly reference produces a different effective discount. For directory purposes, the current displayed annual prices should take precedence over historical pricing references. The company also offers paid-plan trials through the current pricing interface. Subscription fees are non-refundable under the published subscription policy.

AskYourPDF launched in 2023, initially as a ChatGPT plugin designed to help users interact with PDF documents. The product has since developed into a broader document AI platform. The company behind AskYourPDF is Proton Labs, a UK-registered technology company. ProtonLabs’ current website identifies the organization as founded in 2023 and lists AskYourPDF among its AI products. Its leadership team includes Isaac David as Chief Executive Officer, Oluwasesan Yackson as Chief Operating Officer, and Emmanuel David as Chief Technology Officer.

The platform has achieved substantial reported adoption. AskYourPDF’s current website states that it is used by more than 5 million people worldwide. This figure is a company-reported usage statistic rather than an independently audited user count. The product is currently marketed to researchers, students, lawyers, marketers, developers, businesses, and teams.

AskYourPDF has strong recent user feedback in several channels, although the scores vary significantly by platform. G2 currently shows 4.5/5 from 1 review, with the reviewer praising the platform’s document summaries, question answering, interface, ease of onboarding, and mobile availability. Product Hunt currently shows 4.5/5 from 10 reviews, with reviewers frequently praising speed, ease of use, document summarization, and the ability to keep answers tied to uploaded documents.

The larger Chrome Web Store listing currently shows 4.5/5 from 131 ratings, making it one of the larger public rating samples for the product. Users commonly praise the convenience of chatting with PDFs through the browser extension. Trustpilot presents a much more negative picture, currently showing a 1.8/5 rating from 20 reviews, with many recent complaints relating to billing, subscriptions, and customer-service experiences. The significant difference between these review sources means AskYourPDF’s reputation should be considered mixed rather than represented by a single rating.

AskYourPDF is best suited to users who need document question answering, summaries, research assistance, multi-document knowledge bases, website knowledge agents, or automated document workflows. Its strongest differentiators are its broad range of document formats, multi-document Knowledge Base, AI website agent, PDF form filler, OCR, mobile and browser access, Zotero and ChatGPT plugins, and developer API.

Pricing

• Free: $0/month — 100 pages/document, 15MB upload limit, 1 document/day, 50 questions/day, 3 conversations/day.
• Premium: $11.99/month billed annually — 2,500 pages/document, 31MB upload limit, 50 documents/day, 1,200 questions/day, 50 conversations/day, Knowledge Base, OCR, Chrome extension, and additional AI models.
• Pro: $14.99/month billed annually — 6,000 pages/document, 877MB upload limit, 150 documents/day, 100,000 questions/day, 10,000 conversations/day, longer replies, priority support, and additional models.
• Enterprise: Custom pricing.
• API: Free developer tier and paid API Pro from $49.99/month; Enterprise is custom priced.

Review

AskYourPDF has mixed independent feedback across review platforms. G2 currently shows 4.5/5 from 1 review, while Product Hunt shows 4.5/5 from 10 reviews. The Chrome Web Store listing has 4.5/5 from 131 ratings, with users frequently praising document summaries, Q&A, speed, and ease of use.

Trustpilot currently shows 1.8/5 from 20 reviews, with many complaints involving billing and subscription experiences. Because review platforms show substantially different results and some samples remain small, the product is best described as having generally positive product-function feedback but mixed customer-service and billing sentiment.