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Turn a PDF into flashcards

Upload a lecture handout or a textbook chapter and get question-and-answer cards written from what the PDF says, ready to flip, drill or export.

Make flashcards from a PDF
  • Needs a free account
  • Text is processed by Anthropic (Claude)
  • Encrypted in transit

What you get

  • Flashcards written from the PDF's own text: 10, 15 or 20 cards, at an Easy, Moderate or Challenging level.
  • Learn mode, a practice test and a Match game built from those cards, plus a multiple-choice quiz and a study guide from the same run.
  • A download for Anki or Quizlet: a tab-separated text file with one card per line, which both apps import.
  • Save to my study sets to review the deck on a spaced-repetition schedule in this browser.
  • Print cards lays the deck out six cards to a sheet, fronts and backs, on A4 or US Letter paper.

Works best with

  • PDFs with selectable text: exported slides, course handouts, e-books and articles. If you can highlight a sentence in your PDF reader, the study kit can read it.
  • One chapter or one lecture per run. Each run has a text limit; the tool shows how much of it your PDF uses and asks you to trim before it runs.
  • Scanned pages are pictures of text, so the study kit cannot read them. Photographed pages can go through Image to Text first, and the text pasted in.
  • The cards come out in the language of the PDF.

How it works

  1. Open the Study Kit and add the PDF

    Sign in, choose Upload a file and pick the PDF. Its text appears in the box, where you can cut what you do not need.

  2. Choose how many cards, and how hard

    10, 15 or 20 cards; Easy, Moderate or Challenging. The credit cost is shown before you run it, and you are charged only if it succeeds.

  3. Build the kit, then study or export

    Select Build my study kit. Flip the cards, try Learn or the practice test, or download the deck for Anki or Quizlet.

Example

Illustrative example: three cards from one page of a biology handout. Your cards depend on your PDF.

Input

Glycolysis takes place in the cytoplasm and splits one glucose molecule into two pyruvate molecules, with a net gain of two ATP.

Output

  • Q: Where in the cell does glycolysis take place? A: In the cytoplasm.
  • Q: What does glycolysis turn one glucose molecule into? A: Two pyruvate molecules.
  • Q: What is the net ATP gain from glycolysis? A: Two ATP.

Frequently asked questions

Can it make flashcards from a scanned PDF?
No. The study kit reads the text layer of a PDF, and a scan is an image of text with no text layer. If your PDF opens but you cannot select any words in it, it is a scan.
How do I get the cards into Anki or Quizlet?
Choose Cards for Anki or Quizlet. It downloads a plain text file with the question and the answer separated by a tab, one card per line. Anki imports it through File, then Import; Quizlet through its import screen.
Is my PDF uploaded?
The PDF itself stays on your device: its text is extracted in your browser. That text, and only the text, is sent over an encrypted connection to Anthropic (Claude) to write the cards. We do not store it.
How long can the PDF be?
The limit applies to the extracted text, not to pages. A lecture handout usually fits in one run; for a book, build one kit per chapter, which also keeps each deck focused.

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