AI PDF Summarizer
Upload a PDF or paste text and get a short, medium or detailed AI-generated summary in seconds.
Drop a PDF to summarize
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Summary length
PDFCreature's free AI PDF summarizer turns long documents and pasted text into clear summaries. Choose between a short overview, a medium paragraph or a detailed multi-paragraph summary — perfect for studying, research, and skimming long PDFs.
Why use this PDF tool?
Summarize PDFs in seconds
Upload any text-based PDF and let AI produce a faithful summary.
Paste any text
Works on articles, notes, emails — anything you can paste.
Three summary lengths
Pick Short, Medium or Detailed depending on how much depth you need.
Free AI summarizer
No account required — just upload or paste and summarize.
How to summarize a PDF online
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Choose Upload PDF or Paste text.
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Add your PDF (up to 20 MB) or paste your content.
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Pick Short, Medium or Detailed.
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Click "Summarize with AI" and copy the result.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI summarizer free?
Yes. PDFCreature's AI summarizer is free to use online with no sign-up.
What kind of PDFs work best?
PDFs that contain selectable text. If your PDF is a scan, run it through the OCR PDF tool first to extract the text.
Is my content private?
The text is sent securely to an AI provider only to generate the summary — no copy is stored on our side.
Are there length limits?
You can summarize up to roughly 100,000 characters at a time for the best quality.