I've been developing a more elaborate variation on the "chat with a pdf" idea for my own use as a researcher. It's mostly designed for a historian's workflow but it works pretty well for science and engineering papers too. Currently Flash 2.0 is the default but you can select other models to use to analyze pdfs and other text through various "lenses" ranging from a simple summary to text highlighting to extracting organized data as a .csv file:
(Note: this is not at all a production ready app, it's just something I've been making for myself, though I'm also now sharing it with my students to see how they use it. If anyone reads this and is interested in collaborating, let me know).
I regularly paste papers into LLM interfaces but they all spit out generic non-helpful answers. Your app is the only one i've seen that actually helps me understand.
I'm building such tools at https://sugaku.net, right now there's chatting with a paper and browsing similar papers. Generally arXiv and other repositories want you to link to them and not embed their papers, which makes it hard to build inline reading tools, but it's on my roadmap to support that for uploaded papers. Would love to hear if you have some feature requests there
One feature could be that it automatically fetches the papers that it refers to and also feeds them through the llm. And maybe apply that recursively. This could give the AI a better overview of the related literature.
I've been developing a more elaborate variation on the "chat with a pdf" idea for my own use as a researcher. It's mostly designed for a historian's workflow but it works pretty well for science and engineering papers too. Currently Flash 2.0 is the default but you can select other models to use to analyze pdfs and other text through various "lenses" ranging from a simple summary to text highlighting to extracting organized data as a .csv file:
https://source-lens.vercel.app
(Note: this is not at all a production ready app, it's just something I've been making for myself, though I'm also now sharing it with my students to see how they use it. If anyone reads this and is interested in collaborating, let me know).
Wow I just tried this and it's great!
I regularly paste papers into LLM interfaces but they all spit out generic non-helpful answers. Your app is the only one i've seen that actually helps me understand.
I am using Gemini 2.0 pro
awesome tool ben, tried talking to author, although instead of answering it keep referencing me to read paper. is that the intent?
I'm building such tools at https://sugaku.net, right now there's chatting with a paper and browsing similar papers. Generally arXiv and other repositories want you to link to them and not embed their papers, which makes it hard to build inline reading tools, but it's on my roadmap to support that for uploaded papers. Would love to hear if you have some feature requests there
One feature could be that it automatically fetches the papers that it refers to and also feeds them through the llm. And maybe apply that recursively. This could give the AI a better overview of the related literature.