{"slug": "show-hn-pdf-chat", "title": "Show HN: PDF.chat", "summary": "PDF.chat launched an AI-powered tool that lets users upload PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files, or text and chat with them to get instant, cited answers. The tool supports long documents, OCR for scanned files, summaries, starter questions, side-by-side reading, and a simple API for integration. It offers a free tier with paid plans for more features.", "body_md": "# Chat with any PDF\n\nPDF.chat is an AI PDF chat tool — upload a document and chat with your PDF to get instant, cited answers.\n\nDrop a PDF to start chatting\n\nPDF, Word, PowerPoint or text — drop it, browse, or paste a link.\n\n## Cited, verifiable answers\n\nEvery claim links to the page it came from. Click a citation to jump to the exact passage and check it yourself.\n\n## Long docs & whole books\n\nHundred-page reports, textbooks, contracts and dockets — PDF.chat finds the relevant pages and answers from them.\n\n## Summaries & starter questions\n\nGet an instant summary on upload plus suggested questions, so you know what to ask first.\n\n## Side-by-side reading\n\nRead the original PDF beside the chat. Ask a question, click a citation, and the page scrolls into view.\n\n## Free OCR for scans\n\nScanned or photographed PDFs are read with OCR first, so you can chat with paper documents too.\n\n## Simple API\n\nChat with a PDF from your own app with one request. Metered per page, no surprises.\n\n## Create a free account\n\nGet more questions every month, multi-document chat, and save your library — free to start, no card required.\n\n[Sign up free](/signup/)\n\n[See plans](/pricing/)\n\n## How it works\n\n### Upload your PDF\n\nDrop a PDF, choose a file, or paste a link. Scanned documents are read with OCR automatically.\n\n### Ask anything\n\nAsk questions in plain language — summaries, specific facts, dates, totals, clauses. Multi-turn, with memory.\n\n### Get cited answers\n\nAnswers come back grounded in your document with page citations. Click one to jump to the exact passage.\n\n## Chat with PDFs from your own app\n\nA simple REST API: upload a PDF, ask a question, get an answer cited to the page.\n\n```\n# 1. Upload a PDF\ncurl -X POST https://pdf.chat/api/v1/ocr/ \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN\" \\\n  -F \"file=@contract.pdf\"\n\n# 2. Ask a question — the answer cites the page it came from\ncurl -X POST https://pdf.chat/api/v1/chat/UUID/ \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"message\": \"What is the termination notice period?\"}'\n```\n\n", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pdf-chat", "canonical_source": "https://pdf.chat/", "published_at": "2026-06-29 08:09:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-29 08:28:59.671103+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["PDF.chat"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pdf-chat", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pdf-chat.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pdf-chat.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-pdf-chat.jsonld"}}