Yes. Add several PDFs to a project and ask questions across the sources you choose. You can compare their methods, findings and limitations. Read the guide.
Upload your PDF
Upload the document to your Atlas project.
Chat with PDF
Chat with your PDFs
Ask questions about a paper or report. Read cited answers alongside the original PDF.
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How to chat with a PDF
Upload your document to Atlas. Once it is ready, ask what you want to understand and follow the conversation from there.
Ask your question
Ask about a passage, method, result or argument.
Open the citation
Read the original context alongside the answer.
Bring papers and reports into your project.
Explore supported sourcesGet answers to the questions a summary leaves open
A summary gives you the overview. PDF chat helps you understand the details: an unfamiliar method, a difficult passage, or the evidence behind a finding.
Questions to try
Read the answer beside the original PDF
Follow an answer's citation to the document and read the passage in context. Keep the chat and PDF side by side as you work through the explanation.
Use Atlas as an AI PDF reader when you want help understanding what the document says and why it matters.
How to follow citations to a sourceAI document analysis for papers and reports
Work through a document's reasoning one question at a time. Understand what it claims, how the research was done, and what the results mean.
When you need to compare several papers, bring them together in a literature review.
Arguments
Understand the claim and the reasoning behind it.
Methods
Understand how the research was carried out and which assumptions matter.
Findings
Understand the results and the conclusions the authors draw.
Save answers as research notes
Save an explanation or finding as a note alongside your PDF. Return to it when writing, comparing papers or continuing your research.
Frequently Asked Questions
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