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PDF.ai

PDF.ai

Chat with any document

•13 reviews•

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PDF.ai was ranked #4 of the day for May 10th, 2023
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What is PDF.ai?

From legal agreements to financial reports, PDF.ai gives your documents some AI superpowers. You can ask questions, get summaries, find information, and more.

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Launched on August 4th, 2023

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PDF.ai Chat with any document

Launched on May 10th, 2023

PDF.ai was ranked #4 of the day for May 10th, 2023
PDF.ai was ranked #4 of the day for May 10th, 2023

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Damon Chen
Damon Chen
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2yr ago

PDF.ai - Chat with any document

From legal agreements to financial reports, PDF.ai gives your documents some AI superpowers. You can ask questions, get summaries, find information, and more.

Damon Chen
Damon Chen
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2yr ago

PDF.ai Free tools - Free PDF tools, merge, split, compress, compress, rotate etc

PDF.ai's free online PDF tools allow you to merge, split, and compress PDFs. Convert PDFs to images and much more! 100% FREE, no signup needed. All tools run in your browser for complete privacy.

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Advantages of UPDF AI: 1.Price : Much cheaper than pdf.ai. 2. User Interface : Friendly and intuitive. 3. AI Power : Powered by advanced GPT-4 technology. 4. Multi-PDF Chatting : Excellent for chatting with multiple PDFs simultaneously. 5. Summary Quality : Better and more accurate summaries. 6. Translation Capability : Can translate PDFs without altering the original format.
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Ryan Buckley
Ryan Buckley
Thinbox

Thinbox

•2 reviews

Not to rain on anybody's parade, but this product has a VERY small moat. Here's a free version of it that requires using your own OpenAI key: https://knowledgegpt.streamlit.app/ (I'm not affiliated with this product in any way -- I just happened to be curious about Streamlit.) The PDF.ai design is really nice. It's very well executed. I just doubt there's much of a long-term future here.

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2yr ago
Amir K
Amir K
•5 reviews

I used this product, and it is fast. But it gives wrong results. That is a problem as it can mislead the user. Maybe because it uses a cheaper embedding to save cost? I think this needs to be fixed before launching it widely. Lifetime pricing is nice but the product should work properly. It is not disclosed if this uses Open AI and which version. I wish I could rate it better but it needs improvement before you sell it. All the best, Amir

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2yr ago
Ashish Bhateja
Ashish Bhateja
•9 reviews

I purchased this LTD a few days back when it was promoted as a limited-time offer that will "go away in no time." Kudos to the team. Scarcity marketing works wonders for AI apps these days, and it seems the trick is also working for their PH launch. I noticed some discussions about app performance, which I believe is a genuine concern. I created a Twitter thread to provide feedback a few days ago, but it went unnoticed. Please improve the app since it's not working well. 🤞

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2yr ago
Harvey Andruss
Harvey Andruss
•1 review

I uploaded a book and it gave me: "I'm sorry, I cannot summarize the 10 key points as the document(s) provided are not specified. Please provide more information or context so I can assist you better." I gave it the title and asked if it had it indexed. Here is the response: "As an AI language model, I do not have access to your uploaded document or any external database. I apologize for the inconvenience. Is there anything else I can assist you with?" I then asked for the title and it said: "I'm sorry, but based on the extracted parts of the document provided, I cannot determine the title of the document. The parts provided only show that there are several pages intentionally left blank. Please provide more information or context so I can assist you better." I asked for the page numbers of the blank pages. It gave those to me which was perplexing since I had assumed up until this point that the document did not load. I then told it that the title of the document was a book title on 5 different pages, which included the first 2 pages. It then confirmed that it could find the title. I asked why it did not find it initially and it gave the following response: "I apologize for any confusion. I may have misunderstood your initial question. If the document you were referring to is a book titled "XYZ" then I can confirm that I do not have it indexed or stored in my database. As an AI language model, I do not have access to external databases or documents unless they are provided to me by the use". So it's clear that the pinecone or other vector database code missed big time. By the way, this product idea is out there in spades in the open source arena. Not sure it's worth $99 for the Google Collab and Pinecone costs. Let me know your thoughts.

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2yr ago
Tim
Tim
•1 review

There is a reason for the "special" lifetime pricing that was first announced as a very limited, soon-to-disappear deal by Damon. He has now made it a perpetual pricing model to gather as many signups as possible and launched on PH with the same intent. Nothing sells like scarcity especially when AI is attached to it. The app is broken, and the results are inaccurate and useless. I bet anyone who is upvoting has not used the app and is joining the cheering crowd. PDF.ai is a disaster and not even worth calling an alpha. Buying someone else's work and wrapping it under a fancy domain is all that Damon has done.

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