AI Tools for Research

Free PDF reader and editor with chatbot features.

Zotero plugin that adds additional right-click menu of items to open PDFs, including opening PDFs in your viewer of choice.

Adobe Acrobat Pro has a beta AI Assistant rolling out in a phased manner. Temple users have free access to Adobe Creative Cloud programs, see Temple ITS' site licensed software page for details.

Allows you to “talk to” an individual PDF file or group of files. Free tier allows 2 PDF uploads per day.

Free tier generates a one sentence PDF summaries and allows unlimited "highlight explanations" (rephrasing passages you highlight) and follow up questions.

Summarizes YouTube videos using ChatGPT and Claude.

Tool for uploading files and data to a collection (a "brain") that then answers questions based on its LLM and documents in the collection. Quivr can be pulled from Github and set up to run completely locally on a computer with an OpenAI API account (paid, for computation used).

Creates article summaries in the form of AI-generated flashcards with several sections. Free tier allows creating 3 flashcards per day, web browser extension, and exporting to Word.

Distill lengthy content into concise summaries, including text, PDF, URL, blog, Youtube, and audio

Generate an AI summary of any YouTube video.

Free tier can summarize, query, and extract information from PDFs and .doc files.

AI summarizer and notetaking tool oriented towards writing and content professionals. Free tier offers a limited number of summaries and writing outputs per day. Ask questions of your entire library, but not of individual documents. Includes writing templates for common outputs like social media posts, co-worker communications, and others. Has a browser extension for using on particular webpages.